Friday, 6 January 2006 - 9:15 AM

Evaluating the Use of Cotton Chromosome Substitution Lines with a Newly Developed Model

Jixiang Wu, Mississippi State University, USDA-ARS P.O.Box 5367, Mississippi State, MS 39762, Johnie N. Jenkins, USDA-ARS-GAPARU, P. O. Box 5367, Mississippi State, MS 39762, Jack C. McCarty, USDA-ARS, P. O. Box 5367, Mississippi State, MS 39762-5367, and Sukumar Saha, USDA-ARS, Crop Science Research Laboratory, Mississippi State University, Box 5367, Mississippi State, MS 39762.

When using chromosome substitution (CS) lines in cotton breeding program it is important to separate the effects of a target chromosome from the remaining chromosomes. However, the genetic effects due to all target chromosomes cannot be separated with the traditional additive-dominance (AD) model. In this presentation, we will demonstrate the use of a newly developed chromosome model (an extended AD model) and its software. With this new chromosome model, the following analyses are provided: (a) detect the genetic effects due to specific substituted chromosomes or chromosome arms and (b) detect the genetic effects due to specific chromosomes or chromosome arms in the lines crossed with these CS lines. Data from several CS lines and TM-1 crossed with five commercial cultivars grown in four environments will be used to illustrate the use of this new chromosome model. Thus, the new model will not only be useful to determine effects of the chromosomes of interest in various cotton lines, but also be able to unify both genetic and breeding studies.

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