B. Gocmen et al., DEVELOPMENT OF RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA MARKERS FOR GENETIC-MAPPING IN PACIFIC YEW (TAXUS-BREVIFOLIA), Canadian journal of forest research, 26(3), 1996, pp. 497-503
A genetic linkage map was constructed for Pacific yew (Taxus brevifoli
a Nutt.) based on random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers. A s
eries of optimization experiments were conducted to develop a highly r
epeatable protocol for Pacific yew. In these experiments, a high MgCl2
concentration (5.5 mM) together with a low primer concentration (0.2
mu m) in the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) mixture yielded the best
amplification products. PCR amplification products were further improv
ed by treating the template DNAs with RNase. Experiments showed that b
ovine serum albumine had the same effect as RNase on PCR amplification
. The segregating mapping population consisted of 39 haploid megagamet
ophytes from a single mother tree. DNA extracted from a subset of 6 me
gagametophytes was screened with 345 ten-base oligonucleotide primers
of arbitrary sequence. Of the screened primers, 28% revealed at least
one polymorphic locus. Eighty-six of these primers revealed at least o
ne polymorphic locus and were used with the entire set of megagametoph
yte DNAs. One-hundred-two loci were scored and segregated in the expec
ted 1.1 ratio (1.19 locus per primer). Linkage analysis was conducted
using MAPMAKER. Forty-one of 102 markers were distributed into 17 link
age groups and covered 305.8 centimorgans. The remaining 61 unlinked m
arkers should be assigned to linkage groups as more markers are added
to the map.