A practical genome-enabled legitimacy assay for oil palm breeding and seed production

Teh, Chee-Keng; Lee, Heng-Leng; Abidin, Hafiza; Ong, Ai-Ling; Mayes, Sean; Chew, Fook-Tim; Appleton, David

Abstract

Background: Legitimacy in breeding and commercial crop production depends on optimised protocols to ensure purity of crosses and correct field planting of material. In oil palm, the presence of three fruit forms permits these assumptions to be tested, although only after field planting. The presence of incorrect fruit forms in a cross is a clear sign of illegitimacy. Given that tenera forms produce 30% more oil for the same weight of fruit as dura, the presence of low levels of dura contamination can have major effect during the economic lifespan of an oil palm, which is around 25 years. We evaluated two methods for legitimacy test 1) The use of SHELL markers to the gene that determines the shell-thickness trait 2) The use of SNP markers, to determine the legitimacy of the cross.

Citation

Teh, C., Lee, H., Abidin, H., Ong, A., Mayes, S., Chew, F., & Appleton, D. (2019). A practical genome-enabled legitimacy assay for oil palm breeding and seed production. BMC Plant Biology, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-019-2062-x

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 9, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Nov 5, 2019
• Publication Date: 2019-12
• Deposit Date: Nov 6, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 11, 2019
• Journal: BMC Plant Biology
• Electronic ISSN: 1471-2229
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 1
• Article Number: 470
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-019-2062-x
• Keywords: Plant Science
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3069850
• Publisher URL: https://bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12870-019-2062-x