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. 1974 Mar;71(3):835–839. doi: 10.1073/pnas.71.3.835

Four Peroxidase Loci in Red-Fruited Tomato Species: Genetics and Geographic Distribution

Charles M Rick *, Richard W Zobel , Jon F Fobes *
PMCID: PMC388109  PMID: 16592148

Abstract

The banding patterns of certain anodal peroxidase variants of red-fruited tomato species are governed by alleles at four loci—two alleles per locus. Alleles at three loci code for modified enzyme migration patterns and are codominant in heterozygotes; those at the fourth locus code for presence or absence of a band. No evidence of linkage was detected in preliminary tests between four of the six possible combinations of loci. All variant alleles—i.e., those not represented in the standard genotype of Lycopersicon esculentum—exist in the wild L. pimpinellifolium from coastal Peru; all but Prx-3n are also known in L. esculentum from the sympatric region but are rare or absent elsewhere. Between the distributions of alleles of Prx-1 and those of Ge, the gamete-eliminator locus, a significant association exists, which probably does not owe to genetic linkage. The tendency of alleles of Prx loci, as well as those of cm, Ge, h, and Od, to be shared between wild and cultivated taxa in the sympatric region but seldom elsewhere, in addition to published correlated evidence, suggests that the wild alleles tend to substitute in cultivated forms as a result of introgression. In respect to the number of common alleles, cultivated tomatoes more closely resemble the wild L. esculentum var. cerasiforme than L. pimpinellifolium.

Keywords: allozymic polymorphism, electrophoresis, Lycopersicon, phylogeny

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