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. 2003 Nov;165(3):1569–1577. doi: 10.1093/genetics/165.3.1569

Detection and effects of a homeologous reciprocal transposition in Brassica napus.

Thomas C Osborn 1, David V Butrulle 1, Andrew G Sharpe 1, Kathryn J Pickering 1, Isobel A P Parkin 1, John S Parker 1, Derek J Lydiate 1
PMCID: PMC1462855  PMID: 14668403

Abstract

A reciprocal chromosomal transposition was identified in several annual oilseed Brassica napus genotypes used as parents in crosses to biennial genotypes for genetic mapping studies. The transposition involved an exchange of interstitial homeologous regions on linkage groups N7 and N16, and its detection was made possible by the use of segregating populations of doubled haploid lines and codominant RFLP markers. RFLP probes detected pairs of homeologous loci on N7 and N16 for which the annual and biennial parents had identical alleles in regions expected to be homeologous. The existence of an interstitial reciprocal transposition was confirmed by cytological analysis of synaptonemal complexes of annual x biennial F1 hybrids. Although it included approximately one-third of the physical length of the N7 and N16 chromosomes, few recombination events within the region were recovered in the progenies of the hybrids. Significantly higher seed yields were associated with the parental configurations of the rearrangement in segregating progenies. These progenies contained complete complements of homeologous chromosomes from the diploid progenitors of B. napus, and thus their higher seed yields provide evidence for the selective advantage of allopolyploidy through the fixation of intergenomic heterozygosity.

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