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Breed Sci. 2015 Sep;65(4):352-6. doi: 10.1270/jsbbs.65.352. Epub 2015 Sep 01.

Inheritance of low pasting temperature in sweetpotato starch and the dosage effect of wild-type alleles.

Breeding science

Kenji Katayama, Seiji Tamiya, Tetsufumi Sakai, Yumi Kai, Akiko Ohara-Takada, Toshikazu Kuranouchi, Masaru Yoshinaga

Affiliations

  1. NARO Institute of Crop Science , 2-1-18 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8518 , Japan ; NARO Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center , 6651-2 Yokoichi, Miyakonojo, Miyazaki 885-0091 , Japan.
  2. NARO Institute of Crop Science , 2-1-18 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8518 , Japan ; NARO Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center , 9-4 Shinseiminami, Memuro, Kasai, Hokkaido 082-0071 , Japan.
  3. NARO Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center , 6651-2 Yokoichi, Miyakonojo, Miyazaki 885-0091 , Japan.
  4. NARO Institute of Crop Science , 2-1-18 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8518 , Japan ; Headquarters, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) , 3-1-1 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8517 , Japan.
  5. NARO Institute of Crop Science , 2-1-18 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8518 , Japan.
  6. NARO Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center , 6651-2 Yokoichi, Miyakonojo, Miyazaki 885-0091 , Japan ; Headquarters, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) , 3-1-1 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8517 , Japan.

PMID: 26366119 PMCID: PMC4542937 DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.65.352

Abstract

Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.), which is an outcrossing hexaploid, is one of the most important starch-producing crops in the world. During the last decade, new sweetpotato cultivars, e.g. 'Quick Sweet', which have approximately 20°C lower pasting temperature, slower retrogradation and higher digestibility of raw starch than ordinary cultivars, have been developed in Japan. Genetic analysis of these variants with low pasting temperature starch was conducted in this study. Using 8 variants and 15 normal clones, 26 families were generated. The results from analyzing these progenies suggested that this trait is a qualitative character controlled by one recessive allele (designated spt), which is inherited in a hexasomic manner. A dosage effect of the wild-type Spt allele was found for starch pasting temperature, although the effect was not linear. These results will aid breeders to develop sweetpotato cultivars with a range of starch pasting temperatures.

Keywords: gene-dosage effect; inheritance; pasting temperature; polyploid; starch; sweetpotato

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