scholarly journals 511 Toward Mapping and Cloning Late Blight Resistance Derived from the Wild Solanum bulbocastanum using Potato + S. bulbocastanum Somatic Hybrids

HortScience ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 533E-534
Author(s):  
James M. Bradeen ◽  
S. Kristine Ness ◽  
Geraldine T. Haberlach ◽  
Susan M. Wielgus ◽  
John P. Helgeson

Late blight of potato, caused by the fungal pathogen Phytophthora infestans, is of great economic significance and no important U.S. potato cultivars are reliably resistant. The diploid species Solanum bulbocastanum is highly resistant to late blight, even under extreme conditions, but is sexually incompatible with potato. We have generated potato + S. bulbocastanum somatic hybrids. These hexaploid hybrids are highly resistant to late blight and progeny from two successive backcrosses to cultivated potato are either fully resistant or susceptible. The advanced generations are morphologically similar to potato. We have initiated mapping efforts to identify bulbocastanum chromosomal regions responsible for late blight resistance. Using RFLPs, RAPDs, and AFLPs, we identified a single chromosomal region (i.e., single gene or group of linked genes) on chromosome 8 that accounts for 62.2% of the observed resistance. The tomato cDNA clone CT88 cosegregates with late blight resistance in our material and was used to isolate a homeologous BAC clone from a S. bulbocastanum library. Our current efforts include mapping resistance in both fusion-derived and diploid S. bulbocastanum materials via map merging. As markers linked to late blight resistance are identified, we will attempt to convert them to marker forms useful for large-scale breeding efforts. To date, we have successfully converted RAPD and RFLP markers to SCAR and CAPS marker forms. Finally, continued fine mapping and BAC clone characterization will enable future map-based cloning efforts.

Plant Disease ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis A. Halterman ◽  
Lara Colton Kramer ◽  
Susan Wielgus ◽  
Jiming Jiang

Late blight of potato, caused by Phytophthora infestans, is one of the most devastating diseases of potato. A major late blight resistance gene, called RB, previously was identified in the wild potato species Solanum bulbocastanum through map-based cloning. The full-length gene coding sequence, including the open reading frame and promoter, has been integrated into cultivated potato (S. tuberosum) using Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. RB-containing transgenic plants were challenged with P. infestans under optimal late blight conditions in greenhouse experiments. All transgenic lines containing RB exhibited strong foliar resistance. Field-grown transgenic tubers also were tested for resistance to P. infestans. In contrast to the foliar resistance phenotype, RB-containing tubers did not exhibit increased resistance. Two years of field trials were used to ascertain whether the presence of RB had any effect on tuber yield. We were unable to detect any significant effect on tuber size or yield after addition of the resistance gene to several S. tuberosum cultivars.


2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin A.G. Vossen ◽  
Jack Gros ◽  
Anne Sikkema ◽  
Marielle Muskens ◽  
Doret Wouters ◽  
...  

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 722-729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tae-Ho Park ◽  
Jack Gros ◽  
Anne Sikkema ◽  
Vivianne G. A. A. Vleeshouwers ◽  
Marielle Muskens ◽  
...  

Late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans, is one of the most devastating diseases in cultivated potato. Breeding of new potato cultivars with high levels of resistance to P. infestans is considered the most durable strategy for future potato cultivation. In this study, we report the identification of a new late-blight resistance (R) locus from the wild potato species Solanum bulbocastanum. Using several different approaches, a high-resolution genetic map of the new locus was generated, delimiting Rpi-blb3 to a 0.93 cM interval on chromosome 4. One amplification fragment length polymorphism marker was identified that cosegregated in 1,396 progeny plants of an intraspecific mapping population with Rpi-blb3. For comparative genomics purposes, markers linked to Rpi-blb3 were tested in mapping populations used to map the three other late-blight R loci Rpi-abpt, R2, and R2-like also to chromosome 4. Marker order and allelic conservation suggest that Rpi-blb3, Rpiabpt, R2, and R2-like reside in the same R gene cluster on chromosome 4 and likely belong to the same gene family. Our findings provide novel insights in the evolution of R gene clusters conferring late-blight resistance in Solanum spp.


1959 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. M. Graham ◽  
J. S. Niederhauser ◽  
Leopoldo Servin

Solanum balbocastanum Dun. was collected extensively throughout its range in Mexico and Guatemala. Experimental self- and cross-pollinations showed that the species is highly self-sterile and consists of cross-sterile and cross-fertile individuals. Self-sterility may be due to the presence of incompatibility factors or to triploidy. Authentic hybrids were produced between S. bulbocastanum and S. trifidum Correll, and between S. bulbocastanum and S. pinnatisectum Dun.After inoculation with race 1.2.3.4 of Phytophthora infestans three types of reaction were observed among 1148 seedlings of S. bulbocastanum: immunity with no perceptible lesions, resistance expressed by non-sporulating lesions of the hypersensitive type, and susceptibility indicated by large sporulating necrotic lesions. Seedlings resistant to an isolate of race 1.2.3.4 of Canadian origin did not always show the same level of resistance to a Mexican isolate of the same race. Varying degrees of field resistance were observed among seedling plants, while tuber-propagated plants were generally field immune. Solanum bulbocastanum is considered a mixture of resistant and susceptible genotypes.


2009 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 630-641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anoma A. Lokossou ◽  
Tae-ho Park ◽  
Gert van Arkel ◽  
Marjon Arens ◽  
Carolien Ruyter-Spira ◽  
...  

In addition to the resistance to Phytophthora infestans (Rpi) genes Rpi-blb1 and Rpi-blb2, Solanum bulbocastanum appears to harbor Rpi-blb3 located at a major late blight resistance locus on LG IV, which also harbors Rpi-abpt, R2, R2-like, and Rpi-mcd1 in other Solanum spp. Here, we report the cloning and functional analyses of four Rpi genes, using a map-based cloning approach, allele-mining strategy, Gateway technology, and transient complementation assays in Nicotiana benthamiana. Rpi-blb3, Rpi-abpt, R2, and R2-like contain all signature sequences characteristic of leucine zipper nucleotide binding site leucine-rich repeat (LZ-NBS-LRR) proteins, and share amino-acid sequences 34.9% similar to RPP13 from Arabidopsis thaliana. The LRR domains of all four Rpi proteins are highly homologous whereas LZ and NBS domains are more polymorphic, those of R2 being the most divergent. Clear blocks of sequence affiliation between the four functional resistance proteins and those encoded by additional Rpi-blb3 gene homologs suggest exchange of LZ, NBS, and LRR domains, underlining the modular nature of these proteins. All four Rpi genes recognize the recently identified RXLR effector PiAVR2.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saad Serfraz ◽  
Vikas Sharma ◽  
Florian Maumus ◽  
Xavier Aubriot ◽  
Andrew D. W. Geering ◽  
...  

Endogenous viral elements (EVEs) are widespread in plant genomes. They result from the random integration of viral sequences into host plant genomes by horizontal DNA transfer and have the potential to alter host gene expression. We performed a large-scale search for co-transcripts including caulimovirid and plant sequences in 1,678 plant and 230 algal species and characterized 50 co-transcripts in 45 distinct plant species belonging to lycophytes, ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms. We found that insertion of badnavirus EVEs along with Ty-1 copia mobile elements occurred into a late blight resistance gene (R1) of brinjal eggplant (Solanum melongena) and wild relatives in genus Solanum and disrupted R1 orthologs. EVEs of two previously unreported badnaviruses were identified in the genome of S. melongena, whereas EVEs from an additional novel badnavirus were identified in the genome of S. aethiopicum, the cultivated scarlet eggplant. Insertion of these viruses in the ancestral lineages of the direct wild relatives of the eggplant would have occurred during the last 3 Myr, further supporting the distinctiveness of the group of the eggplant within the giant genus Solanum.


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