Heritability of the Tomato Fruit Metabolome

Plant Cell;  March 1, 2008 ;     496 words ......longer apparent in heterozygous introgression lines. Although there was little indication...than they were in the homozygous introgression lines. These results suggest that introgression...and phenotyping of in-terspecific introgression lines for tomato improvement. Nat. Biotechnol...

Homeologous Recombination in Solanum lycopersicoides Introgression Lines...

Genetics;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT A library of "introgression lines" containing Solanum lycopersicoides...substitution lines. Double-introgression lines containing two homeologous...the S. lycopersicoides introgression lines to L. pennellii-a phylogenetically...

High-Resolution Fine Mapping and Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization...

Genetics;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......map-based cloning experiments have relied on a set of introgression lines, each containing a segment of a distant wild relative...map-based cloning of the gene of interest. These tomato introgression lines have been used extensively to clone genes underlying quantitative...

Development of a Near-Isogenic Line Population of Arabidopsis thaliana and...

Genetics;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......population commonly used in plant species are sets of introgression lines. Here we introduce the development of a genomewide coverage...2003). Another type of immortal population consists of introgression lines (ILs) (ESHED and ZAMIR 1995), which are obtained through...

Mode of Inheritance of Primary Metabolic Traits in Tomato(W)(OA)

Plant Cell;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......evaluate components of fruit metabolic composition, we have previously metabolically phenotyped tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) introgression lines containing segmental substitutions of wild species chromosome in the genetic background of a cultivated variety. Here...

Comparative Analyses Between Lolium/Festuca Introgression Lines and Rice...

Genetics;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Publication of the rice genome sequence has allowed an in-depth analysis of genome organization in a model monocot plant species. This has provided a powerful tool for genome analysis in large-genome unsequenced agriculturally important monocot species such as wheat, barley, rye, Lolium,

Molecular Analysis, Cytogenetics and Fertility of Introgression Lines From...

Genetics;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Natural hybridization and backcrossing between Aegilops cylindrica and Triticum aestivum can lead to introgression of wheat DNA into the wild species. Hybrids between Ae. cylindrica and wheat lines bearing herbicide resistance (bar), reporter (gus), fungal disease resistance (kp4), and

New Candidate Genes for Sex-Comb Divergence Between Drosophila mauritiana...

Genetics;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......that are likely contributors to this divergence. We first improved the mapping resolution in the 73A-84AB region using 12 introgression lines and 62 recombinant nearly isogenic lines. To further narrow the list of candidate genes, we assayed leg-specific expression...

Candidate Genes and Quantitative Trait Loci Affecting Fruit Ascorbic Acid...

Plant Physiology;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Solanum lycopersicum accessions) and three related wild species or subspecies. The first population consists of a set of introgression lines derived from Solanum pennellii, each containing a unique fragment of the wild species genome. The second population is...

Dissection of Floral Pollination Syndromes in Petunia

Genetics;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......trait loci were identified for each syndrome component. Two loci for stamen elongation and nectar volume were confirmed in introgression lines and showed large allelic differences. The combined data provide a framework for a detailed understanding of floral syndromes...

Nuclear-Mitochondrial Epistasis and Drosophila Aging: Introgression of...

Genetics;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......crosses between Crete and the United States show subtle but significant differences in longevity; and the interspecific introgression lines showed very significant differences between mtDNAs. However, the genotypes carrying the D. simulans mtDNA were not consistently...

Genetic Control of Fruit Vitamin C Contents1

Plant Physiology;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......the identification of QTLs associated with tissue L-AA contents, to our knowledge, and both of these were in fruit of a library of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) introgression lines (ILs; Rousseaux et al., 2005; Schauer et al., 2006). The a

DNA controversy clouds conference; The animal genetics conference will...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  July 21, 2000 ;     700+ words ......backlash. Speakers at the conference will discuss cloning, gene maps of livestock and research into the functions of genes that underlie traits from limb development in mice to tick resistance in cows. But they aren't likely to speak in the sizzling tones that generally...

History and periodization.(A Special Issue on Periodization)

CLIO;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......times it is more modestly claimed that there are common intellectual presuppositions and common forms of sensibility that underlie traits common to the social institutions and to the cultural products of an age. Mandelbaum warns that any one of these monistic...

Construction and characterization of a BAC library of a cold-tolerant...

Crop Science;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......maps, gene sequencing projects, and map-based cloning are important steps toward identifying and characterizing genes that underlie traits of interest in plants (Appels et al., 2003). For this purpose, libraries based on the bacterial artificial chromosomes...