Ihien, Elizabeth Omonefe: Recreating genomically stable rapeseed. - Bonn, 2024. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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@phdthesis{handle:20.500.11811/11873,
urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5-77758,
author = {{Elizabeth Omonefe Ihien}},
title = {Recreating genomically stable rapeseed},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2024,
month = aug,

note = {Rapeseed (Brassica napus, AACC) is a young allotetraploid species formed by the hybridization of Brassica rapa (AA) and Brassica oleracea (CC). The genetic diversity of rapeseed is limited as a result of few hybridization events between diploid progenitor genotypes as well as intense breeding selection for oil quality traits. One possible way to increase the genetic diversity is by generating resynthesized B. napus lines via interspecific hybridization of the diploid progenitor species B. rapa and B. oleracea. However, resynthesized B. napus lines are often meiotically unstable and infertile, unlike natural B. napus, which is both fertile and stable. This prevents their long-term maintenance and direct use in breeding programs. One hypothesis is that meiotic stability in established B. napus may have arisen through the inheritance of specific alleles from their diploid progenitors. This hypothesis was tested by assessing copy number variation and fertility of 41 early generation (S1) resynthesized lines with SNP genotyping information produced from crosses between eight B. rapa and eight B. oleracea genotypes. Subsequently, eight B. rapa and five B. oleracea parent accessions were resequenced and nineteen resynthesized B. napus lines were analysed for allelic variation in a list of meiosis gene homologs. A second group of resynthesized B. napus material; a large diverse set of 140 lines including early (S1) and advanced generation resynthesized genotypes produced by crosses between B. rapa and B. oleracea as well as between B. rapa and wild C genome species (B. incana, B. hilarionis, B. montana, B. bourgeaui, B. villosa, and B. cretica) was assessed for purity (homozygosity), fertility, and genome stability. SNP genotyping was performed using the Illumina Infinium Brassica 60K array with at least three individuals per line for 116 genotypes. Three major results were obtained in this thesis. Firstly, the identification of 13 putative meiosis candidate genes with presence of putatively harmful mutations and which significantly affect the frequency of copy number. Second is the observation of 8 genomically stable resynthesized B. napus lines. Furthermore, fertility and genome stability of resynthesized lines were genotype dependent and were significantly affected by the interactions between both B. rapa and B. oleracea parental genotypes. The results obtained in this thesis suggests that meiotic stability in established B. napus arose via selection of specific alleles inherited from its diploid progenitor species. This information is useful to breeders who aim to use resynthesize lines as direct breeding materials or for the introgression of useful traits into elite B. napus cultivars. The observation of a few stable and fertile resynthesized lines shows that it is possible to maintain resynthesized B. napus as useful germplasm resource for research and breeding.},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/11873}
}

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