Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf

341 Pages·2009·6.468 MB·English

by  Prof. Toshihiko Yamada, Prof. German Spangenberg (auth.)

Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf
Toshihiko Yamada • German Spangenberg
Editors

Molecular Breeding of Forage
and Turf
th
The Proceedings of the 5 International Symposium
on the Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf
Editors
Prof. Toshihiko Yamada Prof. German Spangenberg
Hokkaido University Victorian AgriBiosciences
Field Science Center for Centre
Northern Biosphere Dept. Primary Industries
Kita 11, Nishi 10 La Trobe R&D Park
Kita-ku 1 Park Drive
Sapporo 060-0811 Bundoora, VIC 3083
Japan Australia

ISBN: 978-0-387-79143-2 e-ISBN: 978-0-387-79144-9
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-79144-9

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Preface
Grassland produces feed for livestock, maintains soil fertility, protects and
conserves soil and water resources, creates a habitat for wildlife, and pro-
vides recreational spaces for sports and leisure while simultaneously main-
taining sustainable economic outputs. Turf species similarly contribute
considerably to our environment by adding beauty to surroundings, provid-
ing a safe playing surface for sports and recreation, and preventing erosion.
In addition to food and environment, bio-energy is a global concern related
to these species. Renewable biomass energy is increasingly being accepted
as a possible alternative to fossil fuels and some forages are promising for
energy crops.

Breeding programs in forages have produced improvements in both
forage yield and quality. Forage and turf in the future must utilize resources
(nutrients and water) more efficiently and must also confer measurable
benefits in terms of environmental quality and renewable energy. With a
widening range of traits, techniques for more accurate, rapid and non-
invasive phenotyping and genotyping become increasingly important. The
large amounts of data involved require good bioinfomatics support. Data
of various kinds must be integrated from an increasingly wide range of
sources such as genetic resources and mapping information for plant popu-
lations through to the transcriptome and metabolome of individual tissues.
The merging of data from disparate sources and multivariate data-mining
across datasets can reveal novel information concerning the biology of
complex.

Previous International Symposium on the Molecular Breeding of Forage
and Turf (MBFT) Symposia were held in Japan in 1998, Australia in 2000,
the USA in 2003 and the UK in 2005. On this occasion the 5th MBFT was
held in Sapporo, Japan in 2007. The 5th MBFT was hosted by the Hokkaido
University in cooperation with the National Agricultural Research Center
for Hokkaido Region and the National Institute of Livestock and Grassland
Science in the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization.
Attendees included breeders, geneticists, molecular biologists, agronomists
and biochemists from 19 countries. The program featured plenary addresses
vi Preface
from leading international speakers, selected oral presentations, volun-
teered poster presentations, as well as tours of the National Agricultural
Research Center for Hokkaido Region, Rakuno Gakuen University and
Sapporo Dome.

This book includes papers from the plenary lectures and selected oral
presentations of the Conference. A wide variety of themes are included
and a collection of authoritative reports provided on the recent progress
and understanding of molecular technologies and their application in plant
breeding. Almost all relevant areas in molecular breeding of forage and
turf, from gene discovery to the development of improved cultivars, are
discussed in the proceedings.

The 5th MBFT and the publication of this book, Molecular Breeding of
Forage and Turf, have been supported by National Agricultural Research
Center for Hokkaido Region; National Institute of Livestock and Grassland
Science; Sustainability Governance Project, Hokkaido University; Alumni
Association, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University; Japan Grassland
Agriculture and Forage Seed Association; Japan Livestock Technology
Association; Green Techno Bank; The Akiyama Foundation; The Kajima
Foundation; Japan Plant Science Foundation; Novartis Foundation Japan
for the Promotion of Science; Life Science Foundation of Japan; Supporting
Organization for Research of Agricultural and Life Science (SORALS); The
Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences; The Suginome Memorial Founda-
tion; Sapporo International Communication Plaza Foundation; Hokuren
Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives; Snow Brand Seed Co., Ltd.;
Toyota Motor Corporation; Monsanto Company; Syngenta Seeds K.K.;
Japan Turfgrass II; Nippon Medical & Chemical Instruments Co., Ltd.;
Applied Biosystems Japan Ltd.; Nihon SiberHegner Co., Ltd.; Nikon
Instech Co., Ltd.; HUB Co., Ltd.; Mutoh Co., Ltd.; Imuno Science Co., Ltd.

We thank Mervyn Humpherys, German Spangenberg, Reed Barker,
Andy Hopkins, Odd Arne Rognli, Hitoshi Nakagawa of the International
Organizing Committee, as well as Toshinori Komatsu, Yoshio Sano, Yoh
Horikawa, Hajime Araki, Akira Kanazawa, Toshiyuki Hirata, Yoshihiro
Okamoto, Kazuhiro Tase, Kenji Okumura, Sachiko Isobe, Hiroyuki Tamaki,
Ryo Akashi, Masayuki Yamashita, Yoshiaki Nagamura, Tadashi Takamizo,
Makoto Kobayashi, Masumi Ebina, Makoto Yaneshita, of the Local Orga-
nizing Committee for their contributions to the success of the Conference.
We also thanks following scientists for their critical reviewing of the
manuscripts of this book:
Preface vii
Michael Abberton, Toshio Aoki, Ian Armstead, Reed Barker, Philippe
Barre, Susanne Barth, Faith Belanger, Yves Castonguay, Hiroyuki Enoki,
Sachiko Isobe, Bryan Kindiger, Takako Kiyoshi, Sohei Kobayashi, Steven
Larson, Dariusz Malinowski, Maria Monteros, Kenji Okumura, Juan Pablo
Ortiz, Mark Robbins, Odd Arne Rognli, Isabel Roldan-Ruiz, Malay Saha,
Christopher Schardl, Leif Skøt, Satoshi Tabata, Tadashi Takamizo, Hiroyuki
Tamaki, Ken-ichi Tamura, Scott Warnke, Yan Zhang.

We thank Jinnie Kim and Jillian Slaight of Springer for their assistance
and cooperation in the publication of this book. Finally, we express our
gratitude to the authors whose dedication and work made this book possible.

Toshihiko Yamada
German Spangenberg

February 2008
Contents
Preface.........................................................................................................v
Molecular Breeding to Improve Forages for Use in Animal
and Biofuel Production Systems..................................................................1
Joseph H. Bouton
DREB Regulons in Abiotic-Stress-Responsive Gene Expression
in Plants.....................................................................................................15
Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki and Kazuo Shinozaki
Comparative Genomics in Legumes..........................................................29
Steven Cannon
Development of Trifolium occidentale as a Plant Model System
for Perennial Clonal Species......................................................................45
W.M. Williams, A.G. Griffiths, M.J.M. Hay, K.A. Richardson,
N.W. Ellison, S. Rasmussen, I.M. Verry, V. Collette,
S.W. Hussain, R.G. Thomas, C.S. Jones, C. Anderson,
D. Maher, A.G. Scott, K. Hancock, M.L. Williamson,
J.C. Tilbrook, M. Greig and A. Allan
Characterization and Utilization of Genetic Resources
for Improvement and Management of Grassland Species.........................55
Roland Kölliker, Beat Boller, Mahdi Majidi,
Madlaina K.I. Peter-Schmid, Seraina Bassin and Franco Widmer
Genomic and Geographic Origins of Timothy (Phleum sp.)
Based on ITS and Chloroplast Sequences.................................................71
Alan V. Stewart, Andrzej Joachimiak and Nick Ellison
Diploid Brachypodium distachyon of Turkey: Molecular
and Morphologic Analysis.........................................................................83
Ertugrul Filiz, Bahar Sogutmaz Ozdemir, Metin Tuna
and Hikmet Budak
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Remnant Oak Savanna Acts as Refugium for Meadow
Fescue Introduced During Nineteenth Century Human
Migrations in the USA...............................................................................91
M.D. Casler, E. van Santen, M.W. Humphreys, T. Yamada,
K. Tamura, N.W. Ellison, R.D. Jackson, D.J. Undersander,
R. Gildersleeve, C. Stendal, M. Reiter and C. Opitz
Development of Microsatellite Markers for Brachiaria
brizantha and Germplasm Diversity Characterization
of this Tropical Forage Grass...................................................................103
Letícia Jungmann, Patrícia M. Francisco, Adna C.B. Sousa,
Jussara Paiva, Cacilda B. do Valle and Anete P. de Souza
Functional Genomics of Forage and Bioenergy Quality
Traits in the Grasses.................................................................................111
Iain S. Donnison, Kerrie Farrar, Gordon G. Allison,
Edward Hodgson, Jessic Adams, Robert Hatch, Joe A. Gallagher,
Paul R. Robson, John C. Clifton-Brown and Phillip Morris
Proanthocyanidin Biosynthesis in Forage Legumes with Especial
Reference to the Regulatory Role of R2R3MYB Transcription
Factors and Their Analysis in Lotus japonicus........................................125
Mark P. Robbins, David Bryant, Samantha Gill, Phillip Morris,
Paul Bailey, Tracey Welham, Cathie Martin, Trevor L. Wang,
Takakazu Kaneko, Shusei Sato, Satoshi Tabata
and Francesco Paolocci
Molecular Dissection of Proanthocyanidin and Anthocyanin
Biosynthesis in White Clover (Trifolium repens)....................................133
Aidyn Mouradov, Stephen Panter, Shamila Abeynayake,
Ross Chapman, Tracie Webster and German Spangenberg
Transcript Profiling of Cold Responsive Genes
in Medicago falcate.................................................................................141
Chaoshu Pang, Congying Wang, Huiping Chen,
Zhenfei Guo and Cong Li
Genetic Diversity and Association Mapping of Three
O-Methyltransferase Genes in Maize and Tropical Grasses....................151
Baldomero Alarcon-Zuniga, Adriana Hernandez-Garcia,
Elias Vega-Vicente, Cuauhtemoc Cervantes-Martinez,
Marilyn Warburton and Teresa Cervantes-Martinez
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QTL Analysis and Gene Expression Studies in White Clover................163
Michael T. Abberton, Athole Marshall, Rosemary P. Collins,
Charlotte Jones and Matthew Lowe
Genome Mapping in Cool-Season Forage Grasses.................................173
Hongwei Cai, Maiko Inoue, Nana Yuyama and Mariko Hirata
Understanding the Genetic Basis of Flowering and Fertility
in the Ryegrasses (Lolium spp.)...............................................................185
Ian Armstead, Bicheng Yang, Susanne Barth, Lesley Turner,
Leif Skøt, Athole Marshall, Mervyn Humphreys, Ian King
and Danny Thorogood
Improving Selection in Forage, Turf, and Biomass Crops
Using Molecular Markers........................................................................193
E. Charles Brummer and Michael D. Casler
Interpretation of SNP Haplotype Complexity in White Clover
(Trifolium repens L.), an Outbreeding Allotetraploid Species................211
Kahlil A. Lawless, Michelle C. Drayton, Melanie C. Hand,
Rebecca C. Ponting, Noel O.I. Cogan, Timothy I. Sawbridge,
Kevin F. Smith, Germán C. Spangenberg and John W. Forster
Development of Marker-Assisted Selection for the Improvement
of Freezing Tolerance in Alfalfa..............................................................221
Yves Castonguay, Jean Cloutier, Réal Michaud, Annick Bertrand
and Serge Laberge
Comparative Analysis of Disease Resistance Between Ryegrass
and Cereal Crops......................................................................................229
Geunhwa Jung, Young-Ki Jo, Sim Sung-Chur, Reed Barker,
William Pfender and Scott Warnke
White Clover Seed Yield: A Case Study
in Marker-Assisted Selection...................................................................241
Brent Barrett, Ivan Baird and Derek Woodfield
Molecular Mapping of QTLs Associated with Important
Forage Traits in Tall Fescue....................................................................251
Malay Saha, Francis Kirigwi, Konstantin Chekhovskiy,
Jennifer Black and Andy Hopkins
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Utilizing Linkage Disequilibrium and Association Mapping
to Implement Candidate Gene Based Markers in Perennial
Ryegrass Breeding...................................................................................259
Kevin F. Smith, Mark P. Dobrowolski, Noel O.I. Cogan,
Germán C. Spangenberg and John W. Forster
Genetic Diversity in Australasian Populations of the Crown
Rust Pathogen of Ryegrasses (Puccinia coronata f.sp. lolii)..................275
Peter Dracatos, Jeremy Dumsday, Alan Stewart, Mark Dobrowolski,
Noel Cogan, Kevin Smith and John Forster
Fungal Endophytes in Lolium and Festuca Species................................285
Christopher L. Schardl
Seed Transmission of Endophytic Fungus, Neotyphodium occultans,
in Cross Breeding of Italian Ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum)
Using Detached Panicle Culture, and Comparison with Situations
in Interspecific/Intergeneric Crossings Including Festuca Species.........299
Koya Sugawara, Akira Arakawa, Takuya Shiba, Hiroto Ohkubo
and Takao Tsukiboshi
Colonial Bentgrass Genetic Linkage Mapping........................................309
David Rotter, Keenan Amundsen, Stacy A. Bonos,
William A. Meyer, Scott E. Warnke and Faith C. Belanger
Advances and Prospects in the Molecular Breeding of Zoysia................323
Makoto Yaneshita
Transgenesis in Forage Crops..................................................................335
Zeng-Yu Wang, Jeremey Bell, Xiaofei Cheng, Yaxin Ge,
Xuefeng Ma, Elane Wright, Yajun Xi, Xirong Xiao,
Jiyi Zhang and Joseph Bouton
Evaluating the Role of Habitat Quality on Establishment
of GM Agrostis stolonifera Plants in Non-agronomic Settings...............341
Lidia S. Watrud, Mike Bollman, Marjorie Storm, George King,
Jay R. Reichman, Connie Burdick and E. Henry Lee

Author Index............................................................................................351