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Analysis of genome-specific sequences inPhleum species: Identification and use for study of genomic relationships
1Plant Science Department, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, 21111 Lakeshore Road, H9X 3V9, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que, Canada.
Abstract:
Sau3AI "shot gun" cloning and colony hybridization with total genomic probes were used to isolate genome-specific sequences inPhleum species. The total DNA isolated from diploid speciesP. alpinum andP. bertolonii was partially digested withSau3AI and cloned using pUC19 as a vector to anE. coli strain DH5αmcr. A partial genomic DNA library consisting of 3030 colonies for the genome ofP. alpinum and one consisting of 3240 colonies for the genome ofP. bertolonii were constructed. Twelve hundred and thirty colonies from the DNA library ofP. alpinum and 1320 from that ofP. bertolonii were respectively blotted to membrane filters and hybridized to the total genomic probes from these two species. Eight clones specific toP. alpinum and 13 specific toP. bertolonii were isolated through colony hybridization and further dot-blot hybridization. Most of these clones may carry highly or moderately repetitive sequences. Three sequences specific toP. alpinum and 3 specific toP. bertolonii were used as probes to hybridize theEcoRI-digested DNA samples from four species,P. alpinum,P. bertolonii,P. pratense andP. montanum, on Southern blot. The results from these hybridization experiments showed that all 3P. bertolonii-specific probes and 2 of the 3P. alpinum-specific probes hybridized to the DNA ofP. pratense, thus confirming the conclusion of the close relationships between the cultivated timothy and its two wild relatives that was drawn in our previous study using the C-banding technique.
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