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Review of Marker Assisted Selection techniques in Plant

Breeding

(name of student)
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Dr. William Tam

Faculty Advisor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Guelph
Guelph, ON
N1G 2W1

Dear Dr. Tam

My first work term in Summer ’01 was spent in “name of company”. I worked in
the Molecular Biology Department under the supervision of “name of supervisor”.

The achievements of my work term were as follows:

1) Run SSR analysis on tomatoes using PCR and Polyacrylamide Gel

Electrophoresis (PAGE) to discover novel molecular markers for genome
mapping.
2) Develop mapping population by performing interspecific crosses among cultivars
and wild tomato breeds.
3) Maintain current breeding population and sample DNA for analysis as needed.

Aside from these goals, I was also able to gain experience in many other techniques of
molecular biology and Marker assisted selection (MAS) in plant agriculture. This report
will provide a general overview of Marker Assisted Selection in plant breeding.

This report has more of a review format then of primary literature. The reason for
this is that plant breeding programs are often very long in duration and it can take several
months to fully complete one. I was not present from start-to finish of any single
program. But, I have included a short summary of one the experiments that was being
performed during my work term.

Lastly, primer sequences have been excluded due to proprietary needs.

Sincerely

(name of student)
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Review of Marker Assisted Selection techniques in Plant

Breeding

(name of student)
(student number)
(Program)
Semester 5, Work Term 1

“name of company”
“Date”
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Table of Contents

Title Page
Cover Page 1
Letter of Submital 2
Title Page 3
Table of Contents 4
Introduction 5
Types of Markers 6
i) Morphological Markers 6
ii) Biochemical Markers 6
iii) Molecular Markers 7
Genetic Mapping and Linkage Analysis 8
Gel Electrophoresis 11
Polymerase Chain Reaction 13
Molecular Marker Techniques 15
i)Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) 15
ii)Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA Markers (RAPD) 18
iii)Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR)/Microsatellites 18
iv) Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism 20
Development and Characterization of Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) 22
Markers and Their Use in Detecting Relationships Among Tomato
Cultivars.

Introduction 22
Materials and Methods 23
Results 25
Discussion 27
Conclusion 27
Acknowledgments 28
References 29
Bibliography 30

List of Illustrations
Figure 1: Sequential Summary of events occurring in isozymes analysis 7
Figure 2: Crossing over of chromosomes in Anaphase of meiosis 8
Figure 3: Construction of mapping population 9
Figure 4: An example of chromosome map 10
Figure 5: Polymerase Chain Reaction 13
Figure 6: Summary of Major events in RFLP analysis 17
Figure 7: Summary of major events in SSR analysis 20
Figure 8: Summary of major events in AFLP analysis 22
Figure 9: Banding Patter of AI778183 primer in 6% polyacrylamide gel 25
with silver staining
Figure 10: Banding pattern obtained from primer AI 895937 26
Figure 11: Banding pattern obtained from AW037347 26
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Introduction

Within the last twenty years, molecular biology has revolutionized conventional breeding

techniques in all areas. Biochemical and Molecular techniques have shortened the

duration of breeding programs from years to months, weeks, or eliminated the need for

them all together. The use of molecular markers in conventional breeding techniques has

also improved the accuracy of crosses and allowed breeders to produce strains with

combined traits that were impossible before the advent of DNA technology (1).

Breeding is simply defined as the selective mating of individuals of a population to

isolate or combine desired morphological, physiological or genetic traits such as

appearance, yield, and disease resistance. This is performed with the assistance of

identifiable traits. When a detectable mutant is identified within a population, the gene

causing the mutation was placed on a genetic map through a series of crosses that would

establish its recombination frequency relative to other genes that had previously

discovered and mapped. If the mutant gene was in close proximity to the gene for a

desired trait, the mutant gene or “marker” was said to be linked to it because the marker

and the gene tend to co-segregate. In a breeding cross, this mutant gene could be used to

detect whether or not a breeding cross had been successful in transferring the desired

trait. If the mutant gene is observed being expressed in the progeny, it is most likely that

the progeny also has the desired trait due to its link to the mutant gene. This is the

phenomenon of co-inheritance and the selection of these mutant genes for the tracking of

desired traits is called indirect selection.

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This breeding technique can be used in almost any species: animal, plant, fungi or

bacteria but the focus here will be on marker assisted selection in agriculture. This paper

will cover how DNA technology has improved upon these techniques and eliminated

most of the error involved with them.

Types of Markers

i) Morphological Markers

These are the traditional markers mentioned before. Morphological mutant traits

in a population are mapped and linkage to a desirable or undesirable trait is determined

and indirect selection is carried out using the physically identifiable mutant for the trait.

There are several undesirable factors that are associated with morphological markers.

The first is there high dependency on environmental factors. Often the conditions that a

plant is grown in can influence the expression of these markers and lead to false

determination. Second, these mutant traits often have undesirable features such as

dwarfism or albinism. And lastly, performing breeding experiments with these markers

is time consuming, labour intensive and the large populations of plants required need

large plots of land and/or greenhouse space in which to be grown (1).

ii) Biochemical Markers

Isozymes are used as biochemical markers in plant breeding. Isozymes are common

enymes expressed in the cells of plants. The enymes are extracted, and run on denaturing

electrophoresis gels. The denaturing component in the gels (usually SDS) unravels the

secondary and tertiary structure of the enzymes and they are then separated on the basis
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of net charge and mass. Polymorphic differences occur on the amino acid level allowing

singular peptide polymorphism to be Detected and utilized as a polymorphic biochemical

marker.

Fig.1: Sequential

Summary of events

occurring in isozymes

analysis of plant

samples. Although

useful in some plant

varieties, isozymes

provide little variation

in highly bred cultivars.

Biochemical markers are superior to morphological markers in that they are generally

independent of environmental growth conditions. The only problem with isozymes in

MAS is that most cultivars (commercial breeds of plants) are genetically very similar and

isozymes do not produce a great amount of polymorphism and polymorphism in the

protein primary structure may still cause an alteration in protein function or expression.

iii) Molecular Markers

Molecular markers are based on naturally occurring polymorphisms in DNA

sequences (i.e.: base pair deletions, substitutions, additions or patterns) (4). There are
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various methods to detect and amplify these polymorphisms so that they can be used for

breeding analysis and these techniques will be the focus of this paper. Molecular markers

are superior to other forms of MAS because they are relatively simple to detect, abundant

throughout the genome even in highly bred cultivars, completely independent of

environmental conditions and can be detected at virtually any stage of plant development.

There are 5 conditions that characterize a suitable molecular marker (4):

1) Must be polymorphic

2) Co-dominant inheritance

3) Randomly and frequently distributed throughout the genome

4) Easy and cheap to detect

5) Reproducible

Molecular markers can be used for several different applications including: germplasm

characterization, genetic diagnostics, characterization of transformants, study of genome

organization and phylogenic analysis.

Genetic Mapping and Linkage Analysis

The techniques of genetic

mapping and linkage analysis

were developed in 1911 by D.H

Morgan and his graduate student

Alfred H. Sturtevant and are still

used today in much the same way

but with far more advanced techniques. The basis of genetic mapping is the phenomenon
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of “crossing-over” of chromosomes during meiosis, where homologous chromosomes

exchange sections of their gene sequence. The tendency of two genes to recombine is

used as a measurement of their linkage and distance on a genetic map. For example, two

genes that recombine often are far apart on a genetic

map and two that rarely recombine are said to be

“linked” and are very close together on a genetic map.

To determine trait recombination frequencies

and form a genetic map, a mapping population must

first be produced. The first step in producing a

mapping population is selecting two genetically

divergent parents (that will still produce viable

progeny). Often one common cultivar and one wild

parent are selected as they are likely to be the most

divergent. The two selected parents are screened for

polymorphism with the markers that are to be mapped

to be sure that the progeny will produce recombinants.

The mapping population is then produced by crossing

the two parents to form an F1 hybrid population which

is selfed to produce an F2 population which can be used

for mapping(4). The initial cross will produce a

uniform, heterozygous population with each plant

contain one chromosome from each parent. During

meiosis, the homologous chromosomes may or may

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not, cross-over and form recombinants. The expected ratio of phenotypes for the F2

population is the classic Mendelian 1:2:1, it is the divergence from this ratio that

determines the amount of linkage between genes. For example of there are two markers

X and Y which are co-dominant for parents A and B; parent A is homozygous (XX YY)

and parent B is homozygous (xx yy). Meiosis in the parents will produce gametes (XY)

in A and (xy) in B, therefore the F1 cross will produce a hybrid (Xx Yy). Gamete

formation in the hybrid is when crossing over becomes important. There are four

possibilities: The first two are the original or “parental” genotypes (XY) and (xy), the

second two are (Xy) and (xY) which are the “recombinant” genotypes. These are called

the recombinant genotypes because their formation is only possible through crossing over

of the homologous chromosomes.

In a population of 200 of these F2 plants an expected ratio would be:

50 (XY XY) : 100 (XY xy): 50 (xy xy)

if no recombination was occurring. With classic, independent assortment, the ratio would

be:

13 (XY XY) : 12 (Xy Xy) : 25(XY xY) : 25 (XY Xy) : 50 ( XY xy) : 25 (xY xy) : 25 (Xy xy) : 13 (xY xY) : 12 (xy xy)

Notice all of the recombinant gametes are in bold. To determine the recombination

frequency, the number of recombinant gametes is divided by total number of gametes.

Note that all progeny with two recombinant gametes are counted twice because they

contain two recombinant gametes. There for the recombination frequency for this

population is 150/400 = 0.375 and are said to be 37.5 centiMorgans apart.

This is the upper limit of recombination frequency in a selfed F2 population meaning that

alleles X and Y are at opposite ends of the same chromosome, any recombination
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frequency lower than this indicates that they genes are linked to some degree. Thus,

genes are mapped on to a chromosome relative to each other through mounds and

mounds of data. This process is now performed almost

exclusively by computer programs (3).

Once a genetic linkage map of a chromosome

has been established, gene locations which have been

mapped in a similar manner can be integrated into the

map. The genes can then be assessed for linkage with

the closest markers on the map and indirect selection

performed using them. For a chromosome map to be

useful, it must be saturated with markers of several

different types so that a variety of markers can be tried

and assessed for their usefulness in detecting that

specific trait.

Gel Electrophoresis

A common technique used in the analysis of molecular markers is gel electrophoresis.

The technique finds its roots in chromatography and its basis is that molecules with a net

charge will move through an electric field and their progress will be retarded to varying

degrees depending on the matrix in which they are moving. The velocity of migration

depends on the strength of the electric field, net charge on the molecule and the frictional

co-efficient of the particle in the matrix.

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E = magnitude of the electric field

Ez
v= z = net charge of the particle
f
f = the frictional co-efficient

f = frictional co-efficient

f = 6πηr n = medium viscosity

r = radius of the particle

Gel is almost exclusively used as the electrophoresis medium because of its ability to

suppress small temperature gradients which can cause fluctuations in current. It’s also

easy to work with and handle and its concentration can be varied to optimize separation.

Two types of gels are commonly used. Polyacrylamide was used first and can

attain high resolution of extremely small molecular weight differences. It does present

some problems however; in its unpolymerized form it is a potent neurotoxin and requires

a great amount of care in handling and must be disposed of appropriately. Agarose is an

extract from seaweed that boils at approx 94 degrees Celsius and when cools, forms a

tight gel matrix. It cannot resolve as well as polyacrylamide, but it is inexpensive and

safe enough to eat. Metaphor agarose is a highly pure form of agarose that, at high

concentrations can achieve highly resolved separations of heavy molecules separated

under high electric field conditions.

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Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

PCR is a method of selectively or non-selectively producing large amounts of

DNA from comparatively small amounts. It was developed during 1985-1986 by the

Cetus Corporation as an in vitro method of DNA amplification. The process involves the

denaturation of the target DNA at 95 degrees followed by the annealing of

oligonucleotide primers to

sequences flanking the target

DNA for amplification which

allow DNA polymerase to bind

and begin synthesizing novel

DNA. This cycle is repeated

over and over again, each time

doubling the amount of DNA

present. After 30 cycles, the

final amount of DNA will be

230 times the original amount.

Initially conventional E.coli DNA polymerase was used, but it is not stable at 95 degrees

and new polymerase had to be added after each denaturation cycle. This was all changed

with the discovery of Taq (Thermus aquaticus – a bacteria found at the opening of

thermal vents of the ocean floor) polymerase by Kary Mullis which was stable at the

denaturation temperature and could be used throughout the entire process without having

to add any more.

To perform PCR the following components are needed:

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1) Forward and reverse oligonucleotide primers

2) Amplification buffer (KCl, TrisCl, 1.5mM MgCl2) this is to control the pH

drop when incubated at the extension step.

3) dNTPs at saturation concentration (can be less)

4) Target DNA sequence. Purity is not a huge problem as long as pH/Taq okay

5) Taq DNA polymerase.

These components are mixed together with double distilled/autoclaved water and put into

a thermal cycler which adjusts the temperature in the following sequence.

1) Denaturation of template DNA at 94◦C

2) Annealing of primers to target sequences at 35-65◦C

3) DNA synthesis from 3’ end of each primer by Taq Polymerase

This cycle is repeater 30-40 times before completion. Taq polymerase has no 5’-3’

exonuclease proofreading activity and thus can be prone to errors and these errors are

propagated with each new cycle; this why some manufactures often sell Taq mixed with a

thermally stable exonuclease to perform this function.

Molecular Marker Techniques

i) Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP)

This was the first molecular marked technique developed and used in MAS for

plant breeding. The technique centers around the digestion of genomic DNA digested
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with restriction enzymes. These enzymes are isolated from bacteria and consistently cut

DNA at specific base pair sequences which are called recognition sites. These

recognition sites are not associated with any type of gene and are distributed randomly

throughout the genome. When genomic DNA is digested with one of these restriction

enzymes, (of which there are thousands, each cutting at a specific sequence), a series of

fragment are produced of varying length. These fragments are separated using agarose or

polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and yield a characteristic pattern.

DNA has a uniform charge per unit length when run under electrophoresis

conditions which arises from the phosphates groups in its backbone. So when DNA

fragments are separated via electrophoresis, the distance they travel is dependent only on

their molecular weight. This allows their molecular weight to be determined with simple

standard called DNA ladders which are run along side the DNA in the gel. When

restriction fragments are separated on agarose gels a series of bands results. Each band

corresponds to a restriction fragment of different length. The lighter they are the farther

they have traveled.

Variations in the characteristic pattern of a RFLP digest can be caused by base

pair deletions, mutations, inversions, translocations and transpositions which result in the

loss or gain of a recognition site resulting in a fragment of different length and

polymorphism.
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Only a single base pair difference in the recognition site will cause the restriction enzyme

not to cut. If the base pair mutation is present in one chromosome but not the other, both

fragment bands will be present on the gel, and the sample is said to heterozygous for the

marker. Only co-dominant markers exhibit this behavior which is highly desirable,

dominant markers exhibit a present/absent behavior which can limit data available for

analysis (2).

Procedure for RFLP

1) DNA isolation – a significant amount of DNA must be isolated from the sample

and purified to a fairly stringent degree as contaminants can often interfere with

the restriction enzyme and inhibit its ability to digest the DNA.

2) Restriction Digest - Restriction enzyme is added to purified genomic DNA under

buffered conditions. The enzyme cuts at recognition sites throughout the genome

and leaves behind hundreds of thousands of fragments.

3) Gel electrophoresis – The digest is run on a gel and when visualized appears a

smear because of the large number of fragments.

4) Transfer to nitrocellulose membrane filter

5) Probe visualization – Because of the large number of fragments, probes must be

constructed to visualize more specific bands in the digest. These probes consist of

radio labeled oligonucleotide sequences which will anneal to the fragment

sequences so that that they may be visualized on photographic paper using a

technique called a southern blot.

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To develop probes to screen RFLP, an initial digest must be performed on the species of

interest. The restriction fragments are ligated into a plasmid vector and transformed into

bacteria. Positive cultures are then isolated, ligated sequences removed, amplified by

PCR and radio-labeled for use as RFLP probes.

PCR Based Molecular Markers

i) Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA Markers (RAPD)

RAPD was the first PCR based molecular marker technique developed and it is by

far the simplest. Short PCR primers (approximately 10 bases) are randomly and

arbitrarily selected to amplify random DNA segments throughout the genome. The

resulting amplification product is generated at the region flanking a part of the 10 bp

priming sites in the appropriate orientation. RAPD often shows a dominant relationship

due to primer being unable to bind (show 3:1 ration, unable to distinguish between

homozyogotes and heterozygotes) (5). RAPD products are usually visualized on agarose

gels stained with ethidium bromide.

ii) Simple Sequence Repeats (SSR)/Microsatellites

Simple sequence repeats are present in the genomes of all eukaryotes and consists

of several to over a hundred repeats of a 1-4 nucleotide motif.

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Some common motifs are:

Mono: A, T

Di: AT, GA

Tri: AGG

Tetra: AAAC

These repeated motifs are denoted (AAAC)n, where n is the number of tandem repeats.

The sequences flanking these microsatellites are often conserved and can be used to

design primers. These primers can be designed by constructing a novel genomic library

and sequencing segments of the subject genome. Already discovered sequence (i.e.:

GENEBANK online database) can also be searched for SSRs and primers designed from

that. Polymorphism is based on the number of tandem repeats and therefore the length of

the PCR products. SSR is a co dominant marker such as RFLP and is usually visualized

on metaphor agarose or polyacrylamide gels (6).

iii) Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP)

AFLP is the latest form of marker assisted selection and is a highly sensitive

method based on the combined concepts of RFLP and RAPD. This technique is

applicable to all species giving very reproducible results. The basis of AFLP is the PCR

amplification of restriction enzyme fragments of genomic DNA.

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1) DNA is cut with two specific restriction enzymes, one frequent cutter (3 bp

recognition site) and one rare cutter (6 bp recognition site).

2) Oligonucleotide “adapters” are ligated to the ends of each fragment. One end

with a complimentary sequence for the rare cutter and the other with the

complimentary sequence for the frequent cutter. This way only fragments

which have been cut by the frequent cutter and rare cutter will be amplified.

3) Primers are designed from the known sequence of the adapter, plus 1-3

selective nucleotides which extend into the fragment sequence. Sequences not

matching these selective nucleotides in the primer will not be amplified.

4) PCR performed

5) Visualized on agarose gels with ethidium bromide

Typical results give 50-100 bands despite selective nucleotides and rare/frequent

selection. This high number of bands eases analysis by providing more chance of

polymorphism (4).

Development and Characterization of Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) Markers and

Their Use in Detecting Relationships Among Tomato Cultivars.

Introduction

As explained previously molecular makers can be used to perform phylogenic analysis on

a species by comparing the presence/absence of various markers in their genome. In this

experiment SSRs are used to compare 19 cultivars of tomato from various geographic
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locations around the world and asses their genetic proximity to one another. Another

outcome to this experiment is the discover of several novel SSR markers to contribute to

the overall genetic map of the tomato

SSRs were chosen due to their abundance in the tomato genome and the wealth of

tomato genomic DNA sequence available online to aid in primer design.

Materials and Methods

Primer Design

Primers were designed from conserved flanking sequences obtained from online

databases such as GENEBANK. They were on average 18-24 base pairs in length with a

melting temp of 47 degrees C.

PCR amplification Conditions

Samples reaction volumes were 10 microlitres consisting of 0.3pM of primer, 2.5nM of

genomic DNA, 5 Units of Taq polymerase, 0.2mM each dNTPs, 10x PCR reaction buffer

containing MgCL2, and H2O to volume. Reactions were performed on a heated lid

thermal cycle for an initial denaturation step of 94 degrees C for 5 minutes; followed by

30 cycles of: 25 secs @ 92 degrees C (denaturation), 25 secs @47-60 (annealing) degrees

C and 25 secs@ 68 degrees C (extension).

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Cultivars

No. Name Origin

1 Borbas Hungaria

2 Bulgaria 436-76 Bulgaria

3 Cc218 ON, Canada

4 Cocabul France

5 Cornell-1010 NY, USA

6 FM 6203 CA, USA

7 Heinz 916010 On, Canada

8 L2024 South Africa

9 N1190 ON, Canada

10 NC EBR-111 NC, USA

11 Ohio 8245 OF, USA

12 Purdue 812 IN, USA

13 S-11-83-4 China

14 Saljut Russia

15 Sandpoint Or, USA

16 Scorpio Australia

17 White Fruit ?

18 DRS-Ben Holland

19 DRS-Bosch Holland
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Analysis

Gels were visualized on 6% polyacrylamide and silver stained. The gels were run for

approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes at 60W and stained immediately afterward.

Results

500 tomato DNA sequences were searched for SSRs and analyzed, 158 primer pairs were

designed and purchased. 127 of these were screened of which approx 45% showed

polymorphism.

Below (Figure 9) is shown the banding pattern of the AI778183 primer. There

are three distinct band morphologies, (A) which is the upper most orientation

characterized by the 2nd band from the left, (B) which is characterized by the leftmost

band, and the heterozygote of which there is one example 7 bands from the left.

Fig 9: Banding Patter of AI778183 primer in 6% polyacrylamide gel with silver staining.
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Fig 10 was obtained from primer AI895126 and only has two distinct

morphologies (A) which is the upper most band and (B) which is the lower band. The

absence of heterozyogtes in this figure does not necessarily indicate that the primer is

unable to express them. Often in tomato cultivars, heterozygosity has been bread out of

their genome.

Fig 1.3 was obtained from primer AW037347 and also has two distinct

morphologies. (A) which is the topmost band, (B) which is the band. This primer is

another example of a dimorphic primer.

Fig 10: Banding battern obtained from primer AI 895937

Fig 11: Banding pattern obtained from AW037347

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Discussion

Although I was not present to witness the end of the experiment, sufficient data

was accumulated to indicate that a phylogentic analysis would be possible. Fig 12.4

shows a preliminary phylogentic tree based on the data currently accumulated.

As seen on the tree, the two cultivars obtained form Holland have the closest

genetic relationship, which is to be expected since they originated from the same

breeding program. Common ancestors then branch out in no predictable fashion. This is

a result of tomato breeders obtaining resources from a variety of locations to incorporate

into their breeding plan. This will provide diversity and increase the likelihood of a

breeding ending up with a resistant tomato line.

Conclusion

From the data obtained, SSRs seem to be a very useful tool in analyzing the

genetic relationship among cultivated species such as tomatoes. They provide

reproducible results and are fairly simple to obtain.

Overall, marker assisted selection has proven to be a very useful technique in

plant breeding. Through these techniques, plant breeders have been able to produce

cultivars of agriculturally significant plants with genes for resistance to many diseases

that were not possible before the advent of DNA technology.

One common miss conception is that MAS is a form of transgenics. This is

untrue. MAS is simply an improvement on an age old method of improve plant quality

and yield. No foreign DNA is introduced into the plant, and no environmentally harmful
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genes have been incorporated. MAS is simply the transfer of useful traits among already

potential mating population.

In future research, the genetic maps that have been developed by MAS will

become more and more saturated as more techniques are developed and more markers

uncovered and mapped. This technique, once normalized will provide small scale plant

breeders to compete with such giants as Monsanto and Pioneer in the race to produce

cultivars with broad based resistance to disease.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank XXX and all of the staff in the molecular biology

department of the XXX, Ontario, for all of there tutelage and help over my first work

term.
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