This document discusses the use of markers for parent selection in peach breeding and production. It covers 1) using markers to characterize relationships between parents and for cross planning to maximize genetic distance and heterozygosity, 2) using markers for seedling selection, and 3) using markers to assist in introgressing traits. It also discusses using markers for breeder's rights protection by creating molecular fingerprints of varieties.
2. MARKERS FOR PEACH BREEDING
1. PARENT CHARACTERIZATION AND SELECTION
Relationships between parents
Cross planning
o Genetic distances
o Heterozygosity
Breeders rights enforcement
2. SEEDLING MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION
3. MARKER-ASSISTED INTROGRESSION
4. SELECTING PARENTS FOR A CROSS: GENETIC DISTANCE
Do my pedigree data fit?
The DENDROGRAM
Clusters group genetically
similar parents
Do I need more variability?
Do I want to have a fixed
background where only a few
traits segregate?
5. SELECTING PARENTS FOR A CROSS: HETEROZYGOSITY
More heterozygosity in the
parents
More segregation in the
progeny
0 20 30 40 50 6010
% Heterozygosity
7. Procedure for Cultivar Identification
for Breeders Rights Protection
Creation of a DataBase with the molecular profiles
Base de Datos
With the Spanish breeders
association (GESLIVE)
Samples collected from
official sources
8. Comparison between the fingerprints
of a problem samples and the DB
Database
Fingerprint coincides with Var. 7
(Calculate the probability of inding by chance another variety with same fingerprint)
Procedure for Cultivar Identification
for Breeders Rights Protection
9. M3
MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION
0-5 cM
M2
LINKED MARKERS: Require validation in a progeny (phase
knowledge)
DIAGNOSTIC MARKERS: Presence of certain alleles predict
corresponding phenotypes
M1IDEALLY DIAGNOSTC
MARKERS. FOR LINKED
MARKERS WE HAVE TO
KNOW THE PHASE
MARKER-SELECTED GENE