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Acta Prataculturae Sinica ›› 2015, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (7): 146-154.DOI: 10.11686/cyxb2014232

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Development and functional verification of cSSR markers for recessive genetic male sterility in oats

ZHANG Li-Jun1, LIU Long-Long1, CHANG Zhi-Jian2, GUO Bin3, CUI Lin1, *   

  1. 1.Crop Germplasm Resources Research Institute, Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences;
    Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement on Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Taiyuan 030031, China;
    2.Institute of Crop Science, Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Taiyuan 030031, China;
    3.Quality and Safety Supervision of Township Agricultural Station, Shouyang 045400, China
  • Received:2014-05-08 Online:2015-07-20 Published:2015-07-20

Abstract: The objective of this study was to develop new cSSR markers from an oat (Anena sativa) recessive genes male sterile transcriptome database. EST sequences obtained from a RNA-Seq of oat male sterile near-isogenic line CAMS9 were used to search for SSRs using software. cSSR primers were developed and functional verification for those related to male sterility was determined with a F2 population of hybridized CAMS9 and Pinyan 2.6409 EST sequences obtained from the transcriptome sequencing had SSR loci and 736 of these sequences had 2 or more loci. Most of the sequence motifs were dinucleotides (56.66%) and trinucleotides (24.30%). For trinucleotides, CCG/CGG (26.68%), AGG/CTT (21.29%), AGC/CTG (18.48%), AAG/CTT (8.18%) and ACC/GGT (8.11%) were the most frequent repeats. For dinucleotides, AG/CT (60.63%) and AC/GT (26.24%) were the most frequent. Based on these cSSRs, 13344 pairs of cSSR primers were designed. 45 pairs of the primers were synthesized based on male sterile-related cSSRs, and 32 (71.1%) of the pairs led to amplified products. Using the F2 population, the polymorphism of 11 pairs between parents and the differences of 7 pairs between fertile and sterile trait pools were detected. In total, 13344 pairs of cSSR primers have been developed from the RNA-Seq database. 32 pairs were related to fertility and 7 can be used for molecular detection of oat male sterility. These new cSSR markers are beneficial for the further use of oat germplasm and for the study of male sterility.