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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-8-28
pubmed:abstractText
Quantitative trait loci (QTL) for domestication-related traits were identified in an interspecific F(2) population of eggplant (Solanum linnaeanum x S. melongena). Although 62 quantitative trait loci (QTL) were identified in two locations, most of the dramatic phenotypic differences in fruit weight, shape, color, and plant prickliness that distinguish cultivated eggplant from its wild relative could be attributed to six loci with major effects. Comparison of the genomic locations of the eggplant fruit weight, fruit shape, and color QTL with the positions of similar loci in tomato, potato, and pepper revealed that 40% of the different loci have putative orthologous counterparts in at least one of these other crop species. Overall, the results suggest that domestication of the Solanaceae has been driven by mutations in a very limited number of target loci with major phenotypic effects, that selection pressures were exerted on the same loci despite the crops' independent domestications on different continents, and that the morphological diversity of these four crops can be explained by divergent mutations at these loci.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0016-6731
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
161
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1713-26
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Conservation of gene function in the solanaceae as revealed by comparative mapping of domestication traits in eggplant.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Plant Breeding and Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't