2015, 28(6): 910-915.
'Liaoning 2' is a dwarf walnut variety bred by Chinese scientists through artificial hybridization, but little is known about its dwarfing mechanism. In this study, the dwarfing mechanism of 'Liaoning 2' is discussed through the comparison of biological characteristics, genomics and the expression of growth-related gene JrGAI,with a growth normally, closely related(half-sib families) variety of 'Liaoning 1' as control. By observing the phenology and tree phenotypes, it was found that there was no significant difference in phenological phase between 'Liaoning 1' and 'Liaoning 2', but 'Liaoning 2' was obviously dwarf, the height, crown and trunk diameter were smaller, the average length of internode reduced significantly, but there was no significant difference in the number of development branch internode. The dwarf phenotype of 'Liaoning 2' is mainly caused by inter-shortening. The qRT-PCR technique was performed to analyze the expression of GA negative regulation gene JrGAI and the results showed that during the shoot development, the expression of JrGAI gene exhibited decreasing expression in the shoot rapid growing period in both varieties and the decline in 'Liaoning 1' was remarkably reduced. The SSR analysis with 25 pairs of primers showed that SSR loci of two varieties were different, especially the homozygosity of 'Liaoning 2' SSR loci was higher. It is concluded that different expressions of JrGAI gene and homozygosity of SSR loci could be important internal reasons of dwarf phenotype of 'Liaoning 2'.
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