Abstract
Bruchid, Callosobruchus chinensis (L.) is an important pest of Vigna radiata during storage. RFLP and PCR based markers identified, linked with bruchid resistance gene in wild accession of greengram (V. radiata var. Sublobata) either collected from Madagaskar or Australia. Whether these markers will be useful for marker assisted introgression of bruchid resistance gene from the Indian accession into the existing cultivars are not known. Here, we employed two STS based markers which were found earlier, to be linked with bruchid resistance gene in Australian accession ACC41. Only one primer pair, STSbr1 showed polymorphism among Indian Sublobata accession (Sub2) and other twelve green gram cultivars. Analysis of 113 segregating lines (F6) of a cross between a popular cultivar of West Bengal, B1 and Sub2 showed a cent percent co-segregation of resistant locus with the polymorphic fragment. STSbr1 behave as a dominant marker among Indian genotypes although it has been shown earlier a co-dominant banding pattern between ACC41 and other Australian Susceptible cultivars. Other STS marker, STSbr2, does not produce any polymorphic fragment among Sub2 and 18 greengram genotypes. STSbr1 employed in screening of 50 green gram accessions and found high efficiency in screening of bruchid resistant genotypes also. So STSbr1 will be useful for marker assisted selection and germplasm screening for development of bruchid resistant greengram.
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