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Genetic studies on the cultivation processes of common buckwheat

Research Project

Project/Area Number 10460005
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Breeding science
Research InstitutionKYOTO UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

OHNISHI Ohmi  Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Professor, 農学研究科, 教授 (20109044)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) YASUI Yasuo  Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Assitant, 農学研究科, 助手 (70293917)
Project Period (FY) 1998 – 1999
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1999)
Budget Amount *help
¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
KeywordsCommon buckwheat / wild ancestor / non-shattering habit gene / AFLP / domestication / アロザイム / RAPD / 系統類縁関係
Research Abstract

The shatterring-nonshatterring habit of common buckwheat is controlled by a single locus (sht). The wild ancestor of common buckwheat, F. esculentum ssp. ancestrale is dominant homozygote Sht/Sht and cultivars are recessive homozygotes sht/sht and show the non-shattering habit. Since natural populations of the wild ancestor is heterostylous outcrossing, they maintain cultivation specific non-shattring allele sht at low frequency (the highest 3% in the Yanyuan population of Sichuan province). These non-shattering habit gene is believed to be utilized at the time of domestication. F. homodtropicum, another wild species closely related to common buckwheat, is a selffertilizing species, hence intuitively it seems to be domesticated more easily. However, this species does not maintain a non-shattering habit gene in populations, hence have not have a chance to be domesticated.
AFLP analyses of cultivated and wild subspecies of common buckwheat revealed that the natural populations of the wild ancestor from eastern Tibet are most closely related to cultivated land races. This probably implies that eastern Tibet as well as northwestern Yunnan must be considered as a candidate of birth place of common buckwheat.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1999 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1998 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (4 results)

All Other

All Publications (4 results)

  • [Publications] Ohnishi,O.: "Non-shattering habit gene(sht), chlorophyII-deficient and other detrimental genes concealed in natural populations of the wild ancestor of common buckwheat"Fagopyrum. 16. 23-28 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Ohnishi, O.: "Non-shattering habit gene (sht), chlorophyll-deficient and other detrimental genes concealed in natural populations of the wild ancestor of common buckwheat"Fagopyrum. Vol.16. 23-28 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Ohnishi O.: "Non-shattering habit gene (sht), chlorophyll-deficient and other detrimental genes concealed in natural populations of the wild ancestor of common buckwheat"Fagopyrum. 16. 23-28 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Ohnishi,O.: "Search for the wild ancestor of buckwheat. III.The wild ancestor of cultivated common buckwheat,and of tatary buckwheat." Economic Botany. 52 No.2. 123-133 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1999-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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