An informative linkage map of soybean reveals QTLs for flowering time, leaflet morphology and regions of segregation distortion.

A genetic linkage map covering a large region of the genome with informative markers is essential for plant genome analysis, including identification of quantitative trait loci (QTLs), map-based cloning, and construction of a physical map. We constructed a soybean genetic linkage map using 190 F2 plants derived from a single cross between the soybean varieties Misuzudaizu and Moshidou Gong 503, based on restriction-fragment-length polymorphisms (RFLPs) and simple-sequence-repeat polymorphisms (SSRPs). This linkage map has 503 markers, including 189 RFLP markers derived from expressed sequence tag (EST) clones, and consists of 20 major linkage groups that may correspond to the 20 pairs of soybean chromosomes, covering 2908.7 cM of the soybean genome in the Kosambi function. Using this linkage map, we identified 4 QTLs--FT1, FT2, FT3, and FT4--for flowering time, the QTLs for the 5 largest principal components determining leaflet shape, 6 QTLs for single leaflet area, and 18 regions of segregation distortion. All 503 analyzed markers identified were located on the map, and almost all phenotypic variations in flowering time were explained by the detected QTLs. These results indicate that this map covers a large region of the soybean genome.

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