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Title: PEROXIDASE GENE POLYMORPHISM IN BUFFALOGRASS AND OTHER GRASSES

Author
item GULSEN, O. - AHRI, TURKEY
item SHEARMAN, R. C. - UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
item HENG-MOSS, T. - UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
item MUTLU, N. - WMARI, TURKEY
item LEE, D. J. - UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
item Sarath, Gautam

Submitted to: Crop Science Congress
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 9/8/2006
Publication Date: 5/1/2007
Citation: Gulsen, O., Shearman, R., Heng-Moss, T., Mutlu, N., Lee, D., Sarath, G. 2007. Peroxidase gene polymorphism in buffalograss and other grasses. Crop Science Congress Vol 47:767-772.

Interpretive Summary: In this paper, genotypic differences in buffalograsses have been addressed using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) techniques. Using short DNA sequences (primers) to known peroxidase genes from rice, several peroxidase gene fragments were amplified using buffalograss DNA. Our results show the utility of our method as well as documenting the relationships between these peroxidase genes in buffalograsses.

Technical Abstract: Plant peroxidases are a family of related proteins possessing highly conserved domains. Degenerate oligonucleotide primers based on these conserved domains can be used to amplify DNA sequences coding for peroxidases from plants with unsequenced genomes. Polymorphisms in peroxidase genes among buffalograss [Buchloe dactyloides (Nutt.) Engelm.] genotypes and eight other grasses were evaluated, and potential evolutionary relationships were deduced using this approach. Fourteen peroxidase specific primers with alternative forward and reverse primers using 34 rice peroxidase cDNAs were designed based on conserved motifs of this gene family. Targeted-PCR amplification of genomic DNA from 28 buffalograss, four C4 and four C3 grass genotypes yielded polymorphisms, differentiating diploids from polyploids within buffalograss, and C3 and C4 grass species from each other. A total of 11 peroxidase gene fragments, seven belonging to buffalograss and four to the other grass species were sequenced. Five of these sequences were clustered with rice ascorbate peroxidase known to have chloroplast origin. These results demonstrate that primers targeting the peroxidase gene family can be used to study genotypic diversity and evolutionary relationships on an intraspecific and interspecific basis. The PCR-based peroxidase markers may also have potential for linkage mapping and differential gene expression studies in grasses.