ISSN:
1439-0523
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
Notes:
Genetic information is needed on maysin, a compound in maize, Zea mays L., silks that is antibiotic to corn earworm larvae, Helicoverpa (formerly Heliothis) zea (Boddie), to assist in the process of breeding for resistance to this pest. This study was initiated to elucidate the inheritance of maysin content in the silks of a cross between two maize inbreds (GT114 and GT119) having resistance to the corn earworm. Reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) procedures were used to quantify the maysin concentration of silks from individual plants in the parent, F1, F2, and first backcross generations of the cross GT114 × GT119. A model assuming dominance at a single locus for low maysin content which is expressed only when a dominant modifier is present was proposed to explain the segregation ratios obtained in the F2 and first back-crosses of GT114 × GT119. This model also provided a fit for maysin data previously generated from a cross between inbreds F6 and F44. Observations of selfed families in the backcross of GT114 × GT119 to the low maysin parent confirmed the two-locus model (one factor with dominance for low maysin expressed only when a modifier gene is also present) as a plausible explanation for inheritance of silk maysin in the cross. The process of selection for high maysin will be complicated somewhat by the presence of a gene which modifies the expression of dominance unless a method of easily identifying the gene, independent of maysin content, can be developed.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0523.1994.tb00659.x
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