Evaluation Method
A diverse collection of 409 Asian rice (Oryza sativa L.) accessions originating from 79 countries was fingerprinted with 36 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers and evaluated for 18 agromorphological traits. Genetically, the accessions clustered into five ancestral groups (subpopulations), indica, aus, aromatic (Group V), tropical japonica, and temperate japonica, based on model-based structure analysis. A strong relationship between subpopulations and geographical distribution was observed. This rice diversity panel with the accompanying genetic and phenotypic information provides a valuable foundation for association mapping, understanding the basis of both genotypic and phenotypic differences within and between subpopulations, and rice improvement programs. The results of this study were published in Crop Science 51:2021-2035.
Assay Method
The polymerase chain reaction was performed in a 25-ul reaction volume that contained 20 ng of genomic DNA, 1 unit of Taq DNA polymerase, 0.1% BSA, 1% PVP40, 10mM Tris-HCl pH 8.3, 50mM KCl, 2.5mM MgCl2, 200 uM of dNTPFs, and 300nM of each primer. The forward primer was labeled with 6FAM and was purchased from DNA Technologies (IDT) (Coralville, IA). The reverse primer was unlabelled. DNA was amplified under the following conditions: (1) initial denaturation at 94C for 5 min; (2) 35 cycles of 94C for 1 min, 55C for 1 min, 72C for 2 min; (3) 5 min final extension at 72C. PCR products were pooled based on color and size range of PCR fragments (three markers per run along with the ROX labeled size standard) and heated to 94C for 5 min to denature the DNA. The samples were separated by capillary electrophoresis using an ABI Prism 3730 DNA Analyzer according to the manufacturer's instructions, and SSR fragments sizing and allele calls were performed with GeneMapper V3.7 (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA). The rice cultivars IR64 and Cybonnet were used as controls for the allele calls and are included in the Rice Diversity Panel.
Control Value
GSOR 301380: 113; GSOR 301401: 118
Number of Observed Alleles
5