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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
Vol. 94, pp. 3524–3529, April 1997
Agricultural Sciences
Oat–maize chromosome addition lines: A new system for mapping
the maize genome
(corn
͞chromosome-specific͞cosmid library͞repetitive DNA͞cloning)
E
VGUENI
V. A
NANIEV
*, O
SCAR
R
IERA
-L
IZARAZU
*, H
OWARD
W. R
INES
*
†
,
AND
R
ONALD
L. P
HILLIPS
*
‡
*Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics and Plant Molecular Genetics Institute, University of Minnesota, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 55108;
and
†
Plant Sciences Research Unit, U.S. Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service, St. Paul, MN 55108
Contributed by Ronald L. Phillips, February 10, 1997
ABSTRACT
Novel plants with individual maize chromo-
somes added to a complete oat genome have been recovered via
embryo rescue from oat (
Avena sativa L., 2n ؍
6x ؍
42) ؋
maize (
Zea mays L., 2n ؍
20) crosses. An oat–maize disomic
addition line possessing 21 pairs of oat chromosomes and one
maize chromosome 9 pair was used to construct a cosmid
library. A multiprobe (mixture of labeled fragments used as a
probe) of highly repetitive maize-specific sequences was used
to selectively isolate cosmid clones containing maize genomic
DNA. Hybridization of individual maize cosmid clones or their
subcloned fragments to maize and oat genomic DNA revealed
that most high, middle, or low copy number DNA sequences
are maize-specific. Such DNA markers allow the identification
of maize genomic DNA in an oat genomic background. Chi-
meric cosmid clones were not found; apparently, significant
exchanges of genetic material had not occurred between the
maize-addition chromosome and the oat genome in these novel
plants or in the cloning process. About 95% of clones selected
at random from a maize genomic cosmid library could be
detected by the multiprobe. The ability to selectively detect
maize sequences in an oat background enables us to consider
oat as a host for the cloning of specific maize chromosomes or
maize chromosome segments. Introgressing maize chromo-
some segments into the oat genome via irradiation should
allow the construction of a library of overlapping fragments
for each maize chromosome to be used for developing a
physical map of the maize genome.
Chromosome addition lines of different plant species (1–5)
have been generated to introgress valuable genes from wild or
cultivated relatives into host plant species. Alien chromosome
additions have been used for gene mapping (2, 6, 7) and serve
as an enriched source of markers for positional cloning and
constructing physical maps of specific chromosomes. The
discovery of maize-chromosome retention in oat ‘‘haploids’’
after oat
ϫ maize crosses and the recovery of stable maize
chromosome-addition oat lines (8, 9) should allow the devel-
opment of a system of chromosome analysis similar to that
available in mammalian hybrid-cell systems (10–12). Such a
system may be used for gene assignment, isolation of chromo-
some-specific probes (13), flow sorting (14) and microdissec-
tion of chromosomes (15), development of chromosome-
specific ‘‘paints’’ of fluorochrome-labeled DNA fragments
(16–18), physical mapping, and selective isolation and map-
ping of cDNAs of a particular chromosome (19, 20).
In this paper we describe an approach for isolating clones
containing large-fragment maize DNA of a single-chromo-
some origin from the oat–maize chromosome addition lines
that will assist in the construction of physical maps for maize
chromosomes. The approach is based on cloning genomic
DNA of an oat–maize chromosome-addition line in an appro-
priate vector and subsequent use of maize-specific dispersed
repetitive DNA sequences as detection probes to isolate clones
carrying maize genomic DNA. Such an approach was success-
fully applied to the isolation of human-specific DNA fragments
in cosmid libraries constructed from DNA of human-rodent
hybrid cell lines carrying individual human chromosomes. In
those experiments the probes included Alu-repeats (21), a
Cot1 DNA fraction (22), or labeled total human DNA (23).
Plant repetitive sequences that are apparently species-
specific were first isolated from rye (24, 25) and later found in
many other species (26). Comparative studies revealed a strong
correlation between the proportion of species-specific re-
peated families in a genome and phylogenetic relationships
(27, 28). About 90–95% of all randomly tested genomic
repeated sequences from barley were detected in wheat and
rye (27). According to DNA reassociation studies, less-related
species such as maize and wheat have less than 10% nucleotide
sequences in common (28). The success of isolating maize
DNA from oat–maize chromosome-addition lines depends on
how many maize-specific (relative to oat) high-copy-number
dispersed nucleotide sequences are found in the maize ge-
nome. Genome analysis in grasses, including maize and oat,
reveals that a major portion of genomic DNA consists of
families of repetitive sequences dispersed throughout the
genome (26, 29, 30). According to DNA–DNA renaturation
data in maize (28), unique sequences of average length 2,100
bp are interspersed with mid-repetitive sequences. Direct
analysis of sequences adjacent to several maize genes reveals
that these genes are flanked by highly repetitive DNA se-
quences (31). Thus, maize large DNA inserts cloned in an
appropriate vector will likely carry some kind of dispersed
maize-specific nucleotide sequence. A cosmid vector was
chosen for this project because of the high cloning efficiency
and relatively large insertion size. Because the oat genome is
about 11,300 Mb, an added maize chromosome with median
size of about 250 Mb would constitute about 2–4% of the total
nuclear DNA of an oat–maize chromosome addition line.
We found that the major part of the maize genome consists
of nucleotide sequences that do not cross-hybridize to oat
genomic sequences under standard hybridization conditions.
This predominant nonhomology between oat and maize
genomic sequences means that many maize genomic sequences
can be directly used for Southern blot hybridization on DNA
from oat–maize chromosome addition lines to selectively
detect sequences of maize origin. A mixture of highly repetitive
dispersed DNA sequences of maize was used as a maize-
specific multiprobe to screen a cosmid library of the chromo-
some addition line. A group of maize-specific cosmids with
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Abbreviation: RFLP, restriction fragment length polymorphism; Mb,
megabase(s).
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To whom reprint requests should be addressed.
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