Molecular Breeding (2014) 34, 1173-1183

Teng Zhang, Zuo Zhao, Chunyu Zhang, Wenxing Pang, Su Ryun Choi, Yong Pyo Lim and Zhongyun Piao (2014)
Fine genetic and physical mapping of the CRb gene conferring resistance to clubroot disease in Brassica rapa
Molecular Breeding 34 (3), 1173-1183
Abstract: The use of clubroot resistance (CR) genes is an effective and economical approach for controlling Plasmodiophora brassicae, the causal agent of clubroot disease in Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa) and other Brassica crops. In a previous study, we identified and mapped the CRb locus on chromosome A03 of B. rapa in the doubled-haploid (DH) line 'CR Shinki DH line' of Chinese cabbage. In this study, CRb, a dominant gene conferring resistance to pathotype 4 of P. brassicae, was finely mapped in combination with bulked segregant analysis and bioinformatics analysis (BIA). Using 1,486 highly susceptible individuals and 2,896 individuals from two separate F2 populations of '702-5' (B. rapa ssp. chinensis) × 'CR Shinki DH line,' the CRb locus was narrowed to a region of approximately 0.14 cM between two flanking markers, TCR79 and TCR108. The sequences of seven newly developed markers linked to CRb were landed on bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) of the reference B. rapa 'Chiifu-401-42' by BIA, and a physical map consisting of three BAC clones was constructed. The CRb locus was defined as an interval of approximately 83.5 kb on a BAC clone (KBrB085J21). The target interval contained one Toll-interleukin-1 receptor/nucleotide-binding site/leucine-rich repeat (TIR–NBS–LRR) gene, one NBS–LRR gene, and several putative regulatory genes in the B. rapa genome. The CRb gene was tightly linked to two other CR genes, CRa and CRb Kato . These results provide useful information for isolation of the CRb gene and tightly linked molecular markers for breeding CR in B. rapa.
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Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
resistance/tolerance/defence of host

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Plasmodiophora brassicae	Brassica - other species