Abstract

Curly (Karelian) birch is a special variety of Betula pendula Roth distributed in the northwestern part of Europe. Karelian birch is well-known for its valuable figured curly wood also known as “wooden marble”. The genetic basis underlying curly wood formation has been debated since last century, however, there was no data about loci responsible for the curly wood trait. In the present study, we analyzed two full-sibs populations derived from experimental crosses of curly birches and segregating for the trait. RADseq genotyping was applied to reveal how many loci are involved in ‘curliness’ formation and to search for genetic variants associated with this trait. One single interval on chromosome 10 was detected containing possible candidate genes. InDel marker BpCW1 was suggested for the first time for marker-assisted selection of trees with curly wood at their earliest stages of development.

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Title
Dissection of figured wood trait in curly birch (Betula pendula Roth var. carelica (Mercklin) Hämet-Ahti) using high-throughput genotyping
Author
Gubaev, Rim 1 ; Karzhaev, Dmitry 2 ; Grigoreva, Elizaveta 3 ; Lytkin, Kirill 1 ; Safronycheva, Elizaveta 2 ; Volkov, Vladimir 2 ; Nesterchuk, Veronika 4 ; Vetchinnikova, Lidiia 5 ; Zhigunov, Anatoly 1 ; Potokina, Elena 6 

 Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University, Institute of Forest and Natural Resources Management, St. Petersburg, Russia (GRID:grid.445913.e) (ISNI:0000 0004 4675 3454) 
 Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University, Institute of Forest and Natural Resources Management, St. Petersburg, Russia (GRID:grid.445913.e) (ISNI:0000 0004 4675 3454); Saint Petersburg Forest Research Institute, Research Laboratory, St. Petersburg, Russia (GRID:grid.445913.e) 
 Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University, Institute of Forest and Natural Resources Management, St. Petersburg, Russia (GRID:grid.445913.e) (ISNI:0000 0004 4675 3454); Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna, Austria (GRID:grid.24194.3a) (ISNI:0000 0000 9669 8503) 
 Saint Petersburg Forest Research Institute, Research Laboratory, St. Petersburg, Russia (GRID:grid.445913.e) 
 Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University, Institute of Forest and Natural Resources Management, St. Petersburg, Russia (GRID:grid.445913.e) (ISNI:0000 0004 4675 3454); Forest Research Institute of Karelian Research Centre Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, Russia (GRID:grid.465465.0) (ISNI:0000 0001 2205 9992) 
 Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University, Institute of Forest and Natural Resources Management, St. Petersburg, Russia (GRID:grid.445913.e) (ISNI:0000 0004 4675 3454); Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia (GRID:grid.454320.4) (ISNI:0000 0004 0555 3608) 
Pages
5058
Publication year
2024
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3048741440
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2024. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.