Inheritance and linkage relationships of isoenzymes in two interspecific cherry progenies

Abstract

Two interspecific cherry progenies, Prunus avium ‘Napoleon’ × P. incisa E621 and ‘Napoleon’ × P. nipponica F1292, were analysed with polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for 19 enzyme systems: alanine aminopeptidase (AAP), aldolase (ALD), alkaline phosphatase (AKP), arginine aminopeptidase (ARA), catechol oxidase (CO), diaphorase (DIA), endopeptidase (ENP), esterase (EST), formate dehydrogenase (FDH), fructose-bisphosphatase (FBP), β-galactosidase (GAL), glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH), β-glucosidase (GLU), glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (G3PDH), hexokinase (HEX), peroxidase (PRX), phosphorylase (PHO) and triose-phosphate isomerase (TPI). Activity for GAL was identical with GLU, and CO with PRX. In addition, activity for AKP was identical with some regions detected previously as acid phosphatase; and most of the PRX activity was identical with regions detected previously as superoxide dismutase. In all, 16 new segregating loci were identified, Ara-1, Dia-2, Est-1, Est-2, -6, -7 and -9, Glu-1 to -4, Hex-1, Pho-1 and -2, and Prx-8 and -9, together with 10 polymorphic putative loci. Analysis of cosegregations of the segregating loci with each other, and with loci established previously, resulted in 19 more loci being added to the cherry linkage map. Fifteen of these were new, and four had been described previously, but were hitherto unlinked. The additional linkages are: Ara-1– Dia-2– Mdh-2–Est-2; Glu-3/Prx-8–Glu-1/-2/-4–Prx-1/-9; Pgd-2–Pho-1/-2; Idh-2–Est-7–Est-6; (Amy-2)–Est-1–(Adh-4/-6); and (Acp-1/-2/-3)–Hex-1–(Gpi-2). (The bracketed loci had been mapped already). Several cherry linkages resemble linkages reported in apple. Analysis of 14 cultivars of P. avium for the same enzyme systems revealed polymorphism for just four of the 15 loci, and for an additional putative locus that was monomorphic in the interspecific material. This lack of isoenzyme polymorphism among cherry cultivars reduces the utility of these markers for linkage analysis and mapping in progenies of P. avium.