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QTL Mapping for 6-Year-Old Growths of a Single Open-Pollinated Half-Sib Family of a Selected Clone 7-1037 in Loblolly Pine(Pinus taeda) and Average Effect of QTL Allele Substitution  

Kim, Yong-Yul (Department of Forest Genetic Resources, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Lee, Bong-Choon (Forest Biotechnology Group, Department of Forestry, NCSU)
O'Malley, David M. (Forest Biotechnology Group, Department of Forestry, NCSU)
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Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science / v.95, no.4, 2006 , pp. 483-494 More about this Journal
Abstract
We conducted QTL mapping for 6-year growths of open-pollinated half-sib progenies from a selected clone 7-1037 in Pinus taeda. With an AFLP marker analysis on haploid DNA samples from the megagametophytes of the open-pollinated seeds, we constructed 20 framework maps spanning a total of 1,869 cM in total length and 18.5 cM in an average interval length between markers. Composite interval mapping reveals that one QTL explains 5.9% of the total phenotypic variation of height, and three QTLs account for 3.9~5.6% of the variation of diameter at breast height (DBH). There are no correlations between the QTLs. The genetic effects of the QTLs are 39.6 cm in height and 7.20~9.41 mm in DBH, respectively, The average effects of gene substitution of the markers closely linked with the QTLs are 44.3 cm in height and 8.38~11.81 m in DBH. Under an assumption that the within-family heritability for the growth traits of loblolly pine is less than 0.2, the QTLs account for 26.8% of the additive genetic variance of the progenies. In terms of relative selection efficiency, the individual selection based on QTL markers could be 5 times as high as phenotypic selection. The results in this study indicate that the QTL mapping method with open-pollinated half-sib family could be more practical and applicable to the conventional seed orchard-based selection work than other mapping methods with a single full-sib family, in particular from the viewpoint that it can provide crucial information for within-family individual selection such as breeding value.
Keywords
AFLP; average effect of gene substitution; breeding value; open-pollinated half-sib family; Pinus taeda; QTL mapping;
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