Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-31-2020
Journal Title
Plants
ISSN
Electronic: 2223-7747
Keywords
legume genome evolution, Phaseoleae, Psoraleeae, Ks analysis, linkage mapping, perennial forage legume, tedera
Disciplines
Agronomy and Crop Sciences
Abstract
We present the first genetic map of tedera (Bituminaria bituminosa (L.) C.H. Stirton), a drought-tolerant forage legume from the Canary Islands with useful pharmaceutical properties. It is also the first genetic map for any species in the tribe Psoraleeae (Fabaceae). The map comprises 2042 genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) markers distributed across 10 linkage groups, consistent with the haploid chromosome count for this species (n = 10). Sequence tags from the markers were used to find homologous matches in the genome sequences of the closely related species in the Phaseoleae tribe: soybean, common bean, and cowpea. No tedera linkage groups align in their entirety to chromosomes in any of these phaseoloid species, but there are long stretches of collinearity that could be used in tedera research for gene discovery purposes using the better-resourced phaseoloid species. Using Ks analysis of a tedera transcriptome against five legume genomes provides an estimated divergence time of 17.4 million years between tedera and soybean. Genomic information and resources developed here will be invaluable for breeding tedera varieties for forage and pharmaceutical purposes.
Recommended Citation
Nelson MN, Jabbari JS, Turakulov R, Pradhan A, Pazos-Navarro M, Stai JS, Cannon SB, Real D. The First Genetic Map for a Psoraleoid Legume (Bituminaria bituminosa) Reveals Highly Conserved Synteny with Phaseoloid Legumes. Plants. 2020; 9(8):973. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9080973
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