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Diversity in conserved genes in tomato.

Allen Van Deynze¹, Kevin Stoffel, C Robin Buell

¹Seed Biotechnology Center, University of California, 1 Shields Ave,, Davis, CA, USA. avandeynze@ucdavis.edu

|December 20, 2007

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Area of Science:

Plant genetics and genomics
Crop improvement
Molecular biology

Background:

Tomato possesses extensive genetic and genomic resources, including EST data and genetic maps.
Resource development has primarily focused on interspecific populations, leaving a gap in understanding intra-specific genotypic variation for breeding.

Purpose of the Study:

To identify nucleotide variation within tomato breeding germplasm and mapping parents.
To analyze conserved single-copy ESTs orthologous between tomato and Arabidopsis.

Main Methods:

Pooled sequencing strategy to screen 967 tomato transcripts.
Polymorphism screening in 12 diverse tomato lines.

Main Results:

Identified 1,487 single nucleotide polymorphisms and 282 insertion/deletions.
579 SNPs and 206 indels were polymorphic in breeding germplasm.
Divergence observed between fresh market and processing germplasm, and between S. lycopersicum var. cerasiformae and S. pimpinellifolium.

Conclusions:

Significant progress made in bridging the gap between genetic resources for wide crosses and intra-specific breeding.
Identified polymorphisms serve as valuable marker resources for tomato breeding.
The approach is applicable to other Solanaceae crops.