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Potential of (GATA)n microsatellites from rice for inter- and intra-specific variability studies

BMC Evolutionary Biology volume 1, Article number: 7 (2001) Cite this article

Abstract

Background

The microsatellite, (GATA)n has been frequently used for DNA fingerprinting. However, very few attempts have been made to analyze (GATA)n-containing loci in rice.

Results

Three polymorphic (GATA)n-harboring loci viz. OS1A6, OS1H10 and OS2E7, containing 7–13 repeat motifs were identified from a genomic library of a cultivated rice, Oryza sativa var. Basmati-370 using oligonucleotide probe (GATA)4. When (GATA)n flanking primers were used to screen 26 wilds (representing different genomes of rice), 16 cultivars, 47 Indian elite rice varieties and 37 lines resistant/susceptible to bacterial blight, up to 22 alleles were obtained at an individual locus. Also, interestingly the bacterial blight resistant lines clustered into a separate group from the remaining rice genotypes, when a dendrogram was constructed based on the polymorphism obtained at the three loci. This may be due to the partial homology of the clones OS1H10 and OS2E7 to regions encoding O. longistaminata receptor kinase-like protein and pathogenesis-related protein. The ability of these O. sativa flanking primers to amplify DNA of maize, wheat, barley and oat indicates that these (GATA)n-containing loci are conserved across different cereal genera.

Conclusions

The large allele number obtained reveals the potential of (GATA)n-containing loci as powerful tools to detect simple sequence length polymorphism (SSLP). The (GATA)n-flanking primers were not only useful in distinguishing between closely related genotypes, but could also be used for cross-species amplification and are also conserved across different cereal genera. These loci could also cluster the bacterial blight resistant/susceptible lines into different groups based on the resistance genes present in them.

Background

Microsatellites [1] or simple sequence repeats (SSRs) [2, 3], consist of simple tandemly repeated di- to penta-nucleotide sequence motifs. Since they are abundant, hypervariable, multi-allelic and evenly distributed throughout nuclear genomes of eukaryotes [4–8] as well as some prokaryotic genomes [9], they provide a valuable source of polymorphism making them an important class of genetic markers. The exceptionally high levels of polymorphism detected by SSRs, referred to as SSLP (simple sequence length polymorphism) is due to the variability in the number of tandem repeats at a particular locus [10].

SSLP can be easily, accurately, rapidly and economically assayed by PCR with primers specific to the unique flanking sequences of the SSR [6, 7, 11, 12]. These second generation markers are somatically stable and inherited in a co-dominant Mendelian manner and can, therefore, distinguish between heterozygotes and homozygotes [13–15]. All these factors together have made SSRs ideal markers for plant breeding, genetic linkage analysis, gene mapping, paternity analysis, forensic identification, conservation biology and population genetics [16–19].

SSLPs have been demonstrated to be extremely useful in rice, for DNA fingerprinting and variety protection [20], studies relating to germplasm conservation and utilization [20–23], gene and QTL analysis [22, 24, 25]; pedigree analysis and marker assisted breeding [22, 26] and screening of large insert libraries [27].

In rice, about 50% of the genome consists of repetitive DNA sequences [28], with approximately 5,700 to 10,000 SSRs [27]. Totally only 323 SSRs have been mapped on the 12 chromosomes of rice, with an average distance of one SSLP per 6 cM [29, 30]. Most of the SSR loci studied so far mainly contain dinucleotide motifs and few contain trinucleotide motifs while very few tetranucleotide-containing microsatellite loci have been identified.

Our laboratory has earlier reported the usefulness of microsatellites and inter-simple sequence repeats in DNA fingerprinting of different rice genotypes [31–34]. In addition, repeat expansion in cultivated rice compared to wild rices has been shown at a (GA)n-containing microsatellite locus, RM122 [35] and organization of a complex microsatellite-containing locus, OS1E6, comprising (GATA)n and (AC)n repeats has been studied [36]. Our laboratory has not only reported the usefulness of (GATA)4 in DNA fingerprinting of different rice genotypes but has also revealed that this oligonucleotide is important in fingerprinting cultivars of pearl millet [37, 38] and isolates of its pathogen, Sclerospora graminicola[39] and in detecting sex specific differences in papaya [40]. In the present work, we have cloned and sequenced three (GATA)n-containing loci from Oryza sativa var. Basmati-370, and used these (GATA)n locus specific microsatellite markers to study the allelic variation revealing the intra- and inter-specific relationships in rice.

Results

Isolation and cloning of loci containing (GATA)n repeats

Screening of a genomic library of Oryza sativa var. Basmati-370 in Charon-40 vector with the probe (GATA)4 resulted in 150 positive signals in the first round of screening. Of these approximately 40 strongly hybridizing plaques were selected for subsequent screening and six clones that gave strong signals on hybridization with (GATA)4 were randomly selected for further analysis. Since the six putative positive phage clones contained inserts greater than 10 kb in size, further subcloning into pUC18 or pBluescript vector was performed, in order to obtain subclones for sequencing.

DNA sequence analysis

Sequence analysis revealed that three subclones viz. OSIA6, OSIH10 and OS2E7 contained (GATA)n repeats and hence were deposited in GenBank, with accession numbers, AF294726 (BankIt 351397), AF285877 (BankIt 345999) and AF 284424 (BankIt 345056), respectively. A close observation of the sequences of these three subclones revealed that the GATA repeat regions were of varying complexity and length, with 7 to 13 repeats which may be perfect or imperfect, according to the definition of Weber [16]. The subclone OS1A6, of the phage clone GATA 7.1, contained seven perfect GATA repeats, while the subclone OS1H10, of the phage clone GATA 3.1, contained seven imperfect repeats, with interruption of the repeat motif by TA (Table 1). The subclone OS2E7 of the phage clone GATA 8.1 contained 13 imperfect repeats, with interruptions within the repeat motif (Table 1). In addition to GATA repeats, the subclone OS2E7 showed the presence of GATG, TATA and AATA repeat motifs, which may represent degenerated GATA sequences. Most of the degeneration can be explained by mutations of a single nucleotide within the GATA core sequence in the process of evolution. The OS2E7 subclone thus contained seven GATA motifs, four GATA-like repeats, with one mismatch and two AGTA motifs.

Table 1 Analysis of the three (GATA)n-containing subclones with respect to repeat number, allele length and number of alleles
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The remaining three subclones did not contain GATA or its complementary CTAT repeat. Although dissociation temperature (Td = Tm - 7.6°C) [41] is useful to predict the appropriate washing temperature, it was found to be least reliable for motifs with a high AT or GC content [42]. In rice, Panaud et al[42] observed that 11 out of 20 putative CGG-containing clones and 3 out of 20 TCT-containing clones did not contain the respective repeat motifs, although they did contain CG and AT rich regions, respectively. In our study too the three putative GATA clones contained AT rich regions, which could explain the positive hybridization signals at (Tm - 5)°C at these loci.

Sequence similarity search using BLAST [43] through the NCBI, BLAST email server revealed that two of the subclones, OS1H10 and OS2E7, showed significant but quite short homology to nucleotide sequences in the GenBank database. The subclones, OS1H10 and OS2E7 had 94 to 95% homology to the Oryza longistaminata receptor kinase-like protein, family member D (Acc #U72726) and 84 to 90% homology to the Oryza sativa pathogenesis-related protein class 1 (PR-1) gene (Acc #U89895). In both the subclones, the segments showing homology to genes for receptor kinase-like protein and pathogenesis-related protein were found to be overlapping each other, indicating similar regions within these two genes. The BLAST searches were based on full-length sequences from which the primer pairs were designed and were not just from the amplified sequences. When the sequences of these two subclones were compared, only a 66 bp region towards the end of subclone OS1H10 was similar to a 66 bp region in the middle of subclone OS2E7. Since the remaining sequence of both these subclones was different and the region showing similarity was in the middle of OS2E7 subclone, these two subclones might be entirely different. Primers flanking the (GATA)n repeat were synthesized (Table 1) and used to amplify various wild and cultivated genotypes of rice, Indian elite rice varieties and bacterial blight resistant and susceptible lines of rice.

Germplasm analysis using primers flanking the (GATA)n repeat region

When different rice genotypes were amplified using the primers flanking the three different (GATA)n containing subclones, it was observed that these primer pairs generated large amount of polymorphism even in closely related elite rice germplasm of India. Amplification was performed at 55°C, 67°C with 2% formamide and 57°C with 2% formamide using primers flanking the subclones, OS1A6, OS1H10 and OS2E7, respectively.

Analysis of distantly related germplasm

Using OS1A6 flanking primers, seven alleles ranging in size from 184 bp to 208 bp were observed in the wild and cultivated rice germplasm set (Table 2), suggesting a difference of six tetranucleotide repeats between the smallest and the largest alleles (Table 1). 22 alleles (116 bp – 521 bp) were detected with OS1H10 flanking primers on the above germplasm (Table 1). On the other hand, OS2E7 flanking primers detected a ladder-like pattern with large number of bands, suggesting the presence of many alleles, which differ in the number of GATA repeats. When representative cereal genotypes of oat, barley, maize and wheat were studied, amplification was obtained in all the cereals using OS1H10 flanking primers while only the maize genotype, Zea diploperensis, gave amplification with OS1A6 flanking primers. When the wild and cultivated germplasm of rice and other cereals were considered together (Table 2), an average of 15.5 alleles were detected over the two scorable loci, OS1E6 and OS1H10. However, when the rice genotypes were considered alone, an average of 14.5 alleles were detected, while an average of 3.5 alleles was observed in the cereal genotypes studied, considering these two loci.

Table 2 List of wild and cultivated rice genotypes used in our study
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Analysis of closely related Indian elite rice varieties

When the (GATA)n flanking primers were used to amplify 47 Indian elite rice varieties (Table 3), 3 (174 bp – 197 bp), 10 (218 bp – 292 bp) and 4 (157 bp – 179 bp) alleles were detected at the OS1A6, OS1H10 and OS2E7 loci, respectively (Table 1). Thus, even in the case of closely related germplasm, the three microsatellite loci were found to be quite polymorphic with an average of 5.67 alleles per locus. Although the 47 Indian elite rice varieties have a narrow genetic base as evaluated from molecular marker and parentage data [44], the three microsatellite loci, when used together, could distinguish about three-fourths of the elite rice cultivars unambiguously.

Table 3 Indian elite rice cultivars used in the present study
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Analysis of bacterial blight resistant / susceptible germplasm

Thirty-seven bacterial blight resistant and susceptible lines (Table 4) resulted in 5, 19 and 6 alleles ranging in size from 171–198 bp, 140–535 bp and 117–143 bp, respectively, using primers flanking the OS1A6, OS1H10 and OS2E7 loci, respectively (Table 1), with an average of 10 alleles per locus. In all the cases, the number of alleles detected was excluding null alleles.

Table 4 BLB resistant and susceptible rice lines used for analysis
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Cluster analysis based on the (GATA)n-containing loci

A dendrogram was constructed based on the polymorphism data obtained at the three (GATA)n microsatellite loci in few representative genotypes of the three sets of germplasm analyzed. The dendrogram revealed that all the bacterial blight resistant lines clustered together, while the remaining genotypes clustered separately (data not shown). Since the bacterial blight resistant lines were found clustered in a separate group, a dendrogram was constructed using the patterns obtained at the three microsatellite loci for all the 37 lines either resistant or susceptible to bacterial blight. The dendrogram thus obtained (Figure 1) revealed the presence of six clusters, wherein the lines grouped together based on the resistance genes present in them. In cluster 1, with the exception of IR22, the remaining three lines were near isogenic to IR-24. The first subgroup of cluster 2 also contained all near-isogenic lines with the exception of Rasi, which joined the cluster separately. The second and third subgroups of the second cluster were heterogeneous, containing lines with Xa 4 and xa 5 resistance genes and one line BPT-5204, which has no resistance genes. Except Swarna and Nigeria-5, in clusters 3 and 6, respectively, all the lines in the third and sixth clusters contained the xa 5 gene. All the Xa 4 containing lines with the exception of T(N)1 in cluster 4 and Kuntalan in cluster 5, grouped together in clusters 4 and 5. In cluster 5, in addition to Xa 4 gene, the lines CRRI-1, CRRI-3 and IET-14444 also contained the xa 5 gene. Interestingly, Jaya, which contains no resistance genes totally outgrouped from the remaining lines. The possible reason due to which the bacterial blight resistant lines showed distinct clustering as above could be due the partial homology of two of these (GATA)n-containing loci, namely, OS1H10 and OS2E7 to regions encoding for receptor kinase-like protein and pathogenesis-related protein.

Figure 1
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Dendrogram showing the genetic relationships between different near-isogenic lines, bacterial blight resistant and susceptible lines based on the polymorphism data obtained at the three (GATA)n-containing microsatellite loci. The numbers at the forks indicate the confidence limits (bootstrap values) for the grouping of those species, which are to the right of that fork. The numbers on the branches of the tree indicate the percentage of times the genotypes to the right of the branching point were grouped together during bootstrapping analysis.

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Discussion

Tetranucleotide (GATA)n: a source of new STMS markers in rice

Rice has one of the smallest genome sizes among plants with a lower frequency of repeated sequences which necessitates the use of a variety of different SSRs to completely saturate the map. Three hundred and twenty three microsatellite markers identified by library screening [6, 29, 30, 45–49] and GenBank searches of rice sequences [6, 29, 30, 47, 50] have been mapped on the rice genetic map. Here, most of the markers contain dinucleotides and trinucleotides and only seven loci contain tetranucleotide repeats such as (AATT)n, (TTCC)n, (GATG)n, (ATGT)n, (GTAT)n, (ATTT)n, (TTTG)n[6, 29, 30, 47–49]. (GATA)n sequences which have not been mapped so far in rice, are the most frequent among tetranucleotide repeats with 270 poly (GATA)n motifs in the entire rice genome [42]. The degree of polymorphism shown by microsatellites rather than their abundance in the genome contributes to their usefulness in genome analysis For fingerprinting plant genomes, Epplen [51] has shown that oligonucleotides based on -GATA- or -GACA-microsatellite motifs are amongst the most frequently used for fingerprinting plant genomes. We, therefore, thought that it would be interesting to isolate these (GATA)n-containing regions from rice and convert them into PCR amplifiable microsatellites, to determine variations at these highly polymorphic loci.

(GATA)n loci: tools for intraspecific variability in rice

Allelic diversity studies in rice [6, 21, 29, 48, 49] have revealed 2–25 alleles per SSLP locus as compared to 2–4 alleles per RFLP locus in cultivated indica and japonica germplasm [27]. In our studies too, up to 19 alleles were detected in Oryza sativa cultivars at the three (GATA)n-containing loci. Even in the closely related Indian elite rice cultivars, 3–10 alleles were obtained, indicating that microsatellite-based PCR markers are very useful in studying variability among genotypes having a narrow genetic base. The main reason for this high degree of polymorphism at the intraspecific level is due to the high mutation rate at microsatellite loci, which results in additions and deletions of repeat motifs.

In humans, SSRs with fewer than 10 repeat motifs tend to show little, if any, polymorphism [13, 52]. However, our studies on rice have revealed that SSRs with less number of repeat motifs also can be extremely informative in plants. In Beta, Arabis, Lycopersicon and soybean also polymorphism is observed, despite the small number of repeats per SSR locus [53–56], suggesting that microsatellite loci with small number of repeats can be potentially informative in plants and should not be ignored.

Cross species amplification at (GATA)n loci

Wu and Tanksley [6] and Panaud et al[48] used STMS markers to amplify DNA of wild Oryza species, indicating their utility in analyzing interspecific crosses. We have observed that STMS markers resulted in a higher level of variation as revealed by a greater number of alleles, when used to amplify genomic DNA of wild rice accessions as compared to O. sativa genotypes. When wild germplasm of rice was analyzed, 7–22 alleles were detected at two loci viz. OS1A6 and OS1H10, while the locus OS2E7 resulted in a ladder-like pattern indicating an extremely high level of polymorphism. Provan et al[57] have observed that amplification of wild rice accessions with primers flanking mononucleotide repeats in rice chloroplast genome, which are analogous to nuclear SSRs, resulted in higher diversity values as compared to O. sativa accessions.

There are several examples of cross species amplification of SSR loci in animal studies, where transferability of these loci in divergent taxa has been reported. In plants also, although reports on cross-species amplification are fewer, similar observation have been made in different species of Cicer[58] and Glycine[56]. Using soybean SSR flanking primers, Peakall et al[56] have amplified DNA from several legume genera such as Albizia, Vigna, Trifolium, etc. Weising and Gardner [59] observed chloroplast DNA variation in members of Solanaceae and most other angiosperm species when they used primers flanking microsatellite motifs in tobacco. The O. sativa primers obtained in this study showed amplification not only in different Oryza species but also in representative cereal genera viz. maize, wheat, barley and oat, indicating that they may be located in the conserved regions of the genome. In an earlier study, we have successfully amplified DNA from different Oryza species as well as wheat, maize, barley, oat, pearl millet and rye at two microsatellite-containing loci, OS1E6 and RM122 [36]. However, with the exception of our studies, very few primer sequences from rice have been shown to be conserved enough to amplify in related genera, although some amplify DNA of wheat, oat, barley, maize, sorghum, millet, sugarcane and bamboo reliably [27, 46]. Roder et al[60] have used microsatellites from wheat to amplify barley and rye DNA. Recently, Ishii and McCouch [61] observed microsynteny at microsatellite loci in the chloroplast genomes of rice and maize. Using primers flanking these loci they amplified wild and cultivated accessions of rice and eight other members of the family Gramineae viz. maize, teosinte, wheat, oat, barley, pearl millet, sorghum and sugarcane. All these studies indicate that microsatellite loci could be useful for comparative genome mapping in cereals.

Microsatellite-containing loci with greater number of repeats are more likely to be polymorphic [16] and the high level of polymorphism at such loci can be attributed to two molecular mechanisms, viz. replication slippage or unequal crossing over. Levinson and Gutman [62] have proposed that if replication slippage is an important mechanism, a longer repeat would tend to show more variation, since the chance of replication errors is higher for a longer stretch of repeated sequence. Our studies on wild genotypes revealed a positive correlation between the average number of repeats and the amount of variation. The OS2E7 locus with 13 imperfect repeats resulted in a large number of alleles, which could not be scored. On the other hand, the OS1H10 locus with seven perfect repeats resulted in 22 alleles while seven alleles were obtained at the OS1A6 locus with seven imperfect repeats, indicating that replication slippage must be the molecular mechanism responsible for generating new alleles at these SSR loci [62–64]. Such a phenomenon was also observed in the case of (TAA)n-containing loci in chickpea [58].

Utility of microsatellites in coding and non-coding regions

Two of the loci reported here have shown significant homology to short stretches of the genes encoding for Oryza longistaminata receptor kinase-like protein and Oryza sativa pathogenesis related-protein. Further, these homologous regions lie within the OS1H10 and OS2E7 loci that are amplified in PCR, 4bp prior to the (GATA)n repeat in case of OS2E7 and 5 bp after the (GATA)n repeat in OS1H10. Also, Xa21, which is one of the genes responsible for imparting resistance to bacterial blight in rice, encodes a putative receptor kinase [65, 66] and (CGG)n repeats have been found in the exonic region of the receptor kinase-like protein, Xa21[29]. Considering these factors, we conclude that the reason for the bacterial blight resistance lines grouping together in one cluster, distinct from the other clusters containing the remaining genotypes, is the short but significant homology of these (GATA)n loci to the Oryza longistaminata receptor kinase-like protein.

We have also observed that the bacterial blight resistant lines clustered into different groups based on the resistance genes present in them. We had earlier detected a similar phenomenon when we used 11 different STMS markers close to the bacterial blight resistance genes, to analyze the same set of 37 rice genotypes [67]. Using OS2E7 flanking primers all the near-isogenic lines except IRBB-8 had only one band of 143 bp. OS1H10 flanking primers on the other hand resulted in three common bands of 240 bp, 257 bp and 331 bp in five of the near-isogenic lines, IRBB-5, IRBB-8, IRBB-10, IRBB-13 and IRBB-21, along with several other bands and a common band of 165 bp in IRBB-4 and IRBB-7. The presence of such bands in the near-isogenic lines, having different bacterial blight resistance genes probably suggests that these microsatellite loci may be associated with disease resistance genes.

Tautz et al[68] have shown that there is a frequent occurrence of nearly all possible SSR motif arrays in both coding and non-coding regions of eukaryotic genomes. Microsatellite repeats have been found in several cloned and completely sequenced genes of rice and many of these microsatellite loci have been mapped [6, 29]. Dinucleotide repeats of RM120 are present in the 3' untranslated region (UTR) of the rice Adh-2 gene for alcohol dehydrogenase [69], while those of RM203 are found upstream of the phy-18 gene for phytochrome in rice [70]. Genetic mapping of these two microsatellite loci has resulted in simultaneous mapping of these two genes onto the rice genetic map [6], indicating that flanking microsatellite polymorphisms can be used to map known genes even when there may not be determinable polymorphism using coding sequences as probes. The screening of a cDNA library has revealed the presence of seven out of twelve surveyed SSRs in the transcribed regions in rice [42]. SSRs have also been found linked to several genes of agronomic importance in rice. Expansion of (CT)n repeats at the microsatellite locus, RM190, located at the 5' UTR of the waxy gene [71] was implicated in phenotypic variation for starch quality in commercial US rice cultivars [26]. Two microsatellite markers were found to be closely linked to the giant embryo gene ges[24], responsible for controlling enlarged embryo size and high protein, oil and vitamin content in rice, while three markers have shown linkage to the xa-5 gene, responsible for imparting resistance to bacterial blight in rice [25]. On chromosome 1, two STMS markers were found to be located in the vicinity of a QTL for rice yield [22].

The availability of greater number of SSLP markers will help to saturate the existing RFLP, SSLP and AFLP maps of rice, thus increasing the power of genome analysis and to fine map different genes and QTLs of agronomic and economic importance in rice. Furthermore, the ability of few characterized microsatellite loci to amplify in different cereal genera could be useful for synteny mapping when they are mapped onto orthologous regions of different cereal genomes. The clustering of bacterial blight resistant genotypes using microsatellite markers in our study postulates diagnostic potential of such markers which can be exploited in marker-assisted breeding programs. However, in order to unequivocally diagnose resistance, a close linkage of these microsatellite loci to R genes will have to be established via mapping.

Conclusions

(GATA)n-containing loci are powerful tools for detecting simple sequence length polymorphisms in the rice germplasm analyzed. These loci are not only useful in discriminating closely related germplasm with a narrow genetic base but can also be used to in cross species and cross-genus amplification as these loci are found to be conserved in different cereals. In addition the polymorphism obtained at these microsatellite loci could cluster the bacterial blight resistant and susceptible lines into different groups according to the resistance genes present in them.

Materials and methods

Library screening and selection of clones containing (GATA)n repeats

A genomic library, constructed using EcoR I digest of Oryza sativa var. Basmati-370 in Charon 40 phage vector (PFU 4.8 × 10-8), was screened with the oligonucleotide (GATA)4, by plaque hybridization [72]. The tetranucleotide (GATA)4 was end-labeled using γ 32P ATP and T4 polynucleotide kinase (U.S. Biochemical Corp., U.K.), according to Sambrook et al[72] and hybridization was carried out at (Tm-5)°C. To reduce the number of false positives, three rounds of screening were performed, wherein the clones that hybridized with (GATA)4 probe in the first round were transferred onto new filters and re-hybridized.

Subcloning and sequencing of the positive clones

Phage DNAs isolated from the selected putative positive clones were digested with Taq I and Msp I and the DNA fragments obtained were ligated into the Acc I site of pUC18 [73] or the Cla I site of pBluescript cloning vectors. These recombinant plasmids were used to transform Escherichia coli host strain XL1-Blue competent cells and white colonies were transferred into microtitre plates containing Luria Bertani medium. Colony hybridization was performed using end-labeled (GATA)4 probe [72] in order to select the recombinant clones containing (GATA)n repeat.

Plasmid DNA, prepared using alkaline lysis method [72] and purified by polyethylene glycol method [72], was sequenced by Sanger's dideoxy chain termination method using Sequenase version 2.0 DNA sequencing kit (U.S. Biochemical Corp., U.K.).

Homology search and design of primers

(GATA)5 was used in BLAST instead of (GATA)4, used for hybridization, so that longer GATA stretches containing a minimum of 20 nucleotides, could be identified. PCR primers, flanking the (GATA)n repeat motif, were designed and were synthesized by Research Genetics Inc (USA) and the primer synthesis facility at NCL (India).

Plant material

The PCR primers synthesized above were used to screen wild and cultivated rice genotypes, along with four representative cereal genotypes. 26 wilds, 6 cultivated rice varieties and related genera (Table 2) were obtained from the International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines, while the remaining two wilds and all the other cultivated rice genotypes (Table 2), along with 47 Indian elite rice varieties (Table 3) and 37 bacterial blight resistant and susceptible lines (Table 4) were obtained from Directorate of Rice Research, Hyderabad, India. Seeds of maize were procured from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, while seeds of wheat were obtained from Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India and those of barley and oat were made available by U.S.D.A. A.R.S., National Small Grains Collection, Aberdeen, U.S.A.

DNA was extracted from leaf tissue by hexa-decyl-trimethyl-ammonium bromide (CTAB) method [74].

Polymerase chain reaction using primers flanking the microsatellite motif

Each reaction was performed in 10 μl volume [6] containing 200 μM each of dCTP, dGTP and dTTP, 25 μM of dATP, 1 μCi of γ32P dATP, 20 ng of each primer, 50 ng template DNA, 0.24 U of Taq DNA polymerase (Boehringer Mannheim, Germany), in 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.3), 1.5 mM MgCl2, 50 mM KCl and 0.5 mM spermidine.

DNA amplifications were carried out in a MJ Research thermal cycler, wherein an initial denaturation of 5 min was performed at 94°C followed by 40 thermal cycles of denaturation at 94°C for 1 min, primer annealing at specific annealing temperature (depending on the Tm of the primer pair) for 2 min and extension at 72°C for 1.5 min with a final extension at 72°C for 5 min.

After amplification, half volume of stop solution (98% deionized formamide, 10 mM EDTA, 0.025% bromophenol blue and 0.025% xylene cyanol) was added to individual reactions. Samples were denatured at 70–80°C for 2–3 min and then electrophoresed on 6% denaturing polyacrylamide gels containing 7 M urea in 0.5 X TBE (Tris-borate-EDTA) buffer (pH 8.0), at 1500 V and visualized by autoradiography.

ΦX174 DNA, digested with HaeIII (Bangalore Genei, India) was dephosphorylated using calf intestinal phosphatase (CIP) (Boehringer Mannheim, Germany) and end-labeled using γ 32P ATP according to Sambrook et al[72] and loaded as molecular weight standard.

Data analysis

Band sizes of each of the alleles were calculated in base pairs, using the program, SeqAid II (tm) version 3.5. [75], wherein the distance of migration of the bands in the marker lane was considered as a standard, against which the sizes of the fragments of interest in the remaining lanes were calculated.

The fragments amplified using these primer pairs were scored as present (1) or absent (0) and the data entered into a binary matrix was analyzed using Winboot program [76]. Coefficients of similarity were calculated using Dice coefficient and cluster analysis was performed by agglomerative technique using the UPGMA (Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic Mean) method. The relationships between the different rice lines studied were portrayed graphically in the form of a dendrogram.

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APD thanks the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi for the award of Senior Research Fellowship. International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines is thanked for providing DNA of 26 wilds, six cultivated rice varieties and three related genera. Directorate of Rice Research (DRR), Hyderabad is acknowledged for providing seed material of all the remaining rice genotypes used in our study. Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi and Agharkar Research Institute are acknowledged for providing seed material of maize and wheat, respectively. The authors thank USDA ARS, National Small Grains Collection, Aberdeen, U.S.A. for providing seeds of barley and oat. This work was supported by grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, U.S.A., #Grant No RF 95001, #327. The experiments described in this manuscript comply with the current laws of the country in which they were performed.

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Davierwala, A.P., Ramakrishna, W., Chowdari, V. et al. Potential of (GATA)n microsatellites from rice for inter- and intra-specific variability studies. BMC Evol Biol 1, 7 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-1-7

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  • Microsatellite Locus
  • Pearl Millet
  • Repeat Motif
  • Bacterial Blight
  • Rice Genotype

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