TY - JOUR
T1 - Interactive effects of two heading-time loci, Se1 and Ef1, on pre-flowering developmental phases in rice (Oryza sativa L.)
AU - Ichitani, Katsuyuki
AU - Inoue, Hiromo
AU - Nishida, Hidetaka
AU - Okumoto, Yutaka
AU - Tanisaka, Takatoshi
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Dr Tsai Kuo-Hai for kindly providing T65 and its isogenic lines. This work was funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - The interaction between the Se1 and the Ef1 loci, which chiefly control the photoperiod sensitivity (PS) and the basic vegetative growth (BVG) period of rice (Oryza sativa L.) respectively, was investigated using four tester lines different in genotype for the two heading time loci from each other. The four tester lines were grown under 10, 13, 14, 15, and 16h daylengths to estimate their BVG period and PS. The Taiwanese cultivar Taichung 65 (T65), one of the tester lines, has an extremely long BVG period that has been considered to be conferred by a late heading-time allele ef1 at the Ef1 locus. Experimental results, however, showed that the extremely long BVG of T65 was conferred not by a single effect of ef1 but by a complementary effect of ef1 and Se1-e, a photoperiod insensitivity allele, at the Se1 locus. It was also found that a complementary effect of a PS allele Se1-n at the Se1 locus and ef1 stimulates the PS of rice, Gene analysis for heading time under an optimum daylength (10 h) as well as under natural daylength confirmed the presence of the complementary effect of the two nonallelic genes on BVG, which was found only with homozygosity of both the genes. Based on these results and earlier reports on the Se1 locus, the roles of the Se1 and Ef1 loci on the durations of pre-flowering developmental phases in rice were discussed.
AB - The interaction between the Se1 and the Ef1 loci, which chiefly control the photoperiod sensitivity (PS) and the basic vegetative growth (BVG) period of rice (Oryza sativa L.) respectively, was investigated using four tester lines different in genotype for the two heading time loci from each other. The four tester lines were grown under 10, 13, 14, 15, and 16h daylengths to estimate their BVG period and PS. The Taiwanese cultivar Taichung 65 (T65), one of the tester lines, has an extremely long BVG period that has been considered to be conferred by a late heading-time allele ef1 at the Ef1 locus. Experimental results, however, showed that the extremely long BVG of T65 was conferred not by a single effect of ef1 but by a complementary effect of ef1 and Se1-e, a photoperiod insensitivity allele, at the Se1 locus. It was also found that a complementary effect of a PS allele Se1-n at the Se1 locus and ef1 stimulates the PS of rice, Gene analysis for heading time under an optimum daylength (10 h) as well as under natural daylength confirmed the presence of the complementary effect of the two nonallelic genes on BVG, which was found only with homozygosity of both the genes. Based on these results and earlier reports on the Se1 locus, the roles of the Se1 and Ef1 loci on the durations of pre-flowering developmental phases in rice were discussed.
KW - Basic vegetative growth
KW - Gene analysis
KW - Gene interaction
KW - Heading time
KW - Oryza sativa
KW - Photoperiod sensitivity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0036040216&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=0036040216&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1023/A:1016357511738
DO - 10.1023/A:1016357511738
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036040216
VL - 126
SP - 227
EP - 234
JO - Euphytica
JF - Euphytica
SN - 0014-2336
IS - 2
ER -