Construction of a high-density genetic map for grape using specific length amplified fragment (SLAF) sequencing

PLoS One. 2017 Jul 26;12(7):e0181728. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0181728. eCollection 2017.

Abstract

Genetic maps are important tools in plant genomics and breeding. We report a large-scale discovery of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) using the specific length amplified fragment sequencing (SLAF-seq) technique for the construction of high-density genetic maps for two elite wine grape cultivars, 'Chardonnay' and 'Beibinghong', and their 130 F1 plants. A total of 372.53 M paired-end reads were obtained after preprocessing. The average sequencing depth was 33.81 for 'Chardonnay' (the female parent), 48.20 for 'Beibinghong' (the male parent), and 12.66 for the F1 offspring. We detected 202,349 high-quality SLAFs of which 144,972 were polymorphic; 10,042 SNPs were used to construct a genetic map that spanned 1,969.95 cM, with an average genetic distance of 0.23 cM between adjacent markers. This genetic map contains the largest molecular marker number of the grape maps so far reported. We thus demonstrate that SLAF-seq is a promising strategy for the construction of high-density genetic maps; the map that we report here is a good potential resource for QTL mapping of genes linked to major economic and agronomic traits, map-based cloning, and marker-assisted selection of grape.

MeSH terms

  • Alleles
  • Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis
  • Chromosome Mapping / methods*
  • Chromosomes, Plant / genetics*
  • Genetic Linkage
  • Genotype
  • Haplotypes
  • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / methods*
  • Phenotype
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide*
  • Quantitative Trait Loci / genetics
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Species Specificity
  • Vitis / classification
  • Vitis / genetics*

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31372021, 31572085), and the China Agriculture Research System (CRAS-30-yz-6).