Methods to study the advantages of cleistogamy in oilseed rape in limiting unwanted gene flow
The interest ofcleistogamy (permanent closing of flowers) lies in two ways: to favour self pollination (i.e. to maintain pure lines) and to reduce gene flow by limiting pollen dispersal. The latter aim could be very beneficial in the case of the GMO control.Presently, the stability of the cleistogamous trait (obtained by mutagenesis) is attained in several lines but has to be confirmed under various climatic and agricultural conditions.In addition, stable cleistogamous lines having an erucic acid marker are now available. This marker can be easily detected in the seeds and its content found in the offspring seeds is a good indicator of cross-pollination. Thus, biological material now exists enabling several experimental designs to study the impact of this trait both on autogamy rate and pollen dispersal.Two kinds of experiments can be carried out in the field:● To study the incidence of cleistogamy on the autogamy rate in the cleistogamous plants, a small proportion of seeds of one cleistogamous line is sown in a field of a conventional oilseed rape having a high erucic acid seeds content as a marker.● To study the role of the cleistogamy on the pollen transfer to non cleistogamous plants, on the opposite, a small proportion of seeds of a conventional oilseed rape exhibiting a low erucic acid level is sown in a field of a high erucic acid cleistogamous line.A third kind of experiment can be designed to study the effect of cleistogamy in escaping allo-pollen contamination according to the distance of a contaminant neighbouring plot.In addition, because honeybees are involved in pollen transfers their foraging behaviour on closed flower is investigated in order to known whether they open the flowers or not in the field experimental conditions.
Oilseed rape Brassica napus cleistogamy honeybee gene flow co-existence
Jacqueline Pierre Agnès Fargue Hervé Picault Xavier Pinochet Michel Renard
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR BiO3P, BP 35327, 35653 Le Rheu cedex, France Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR APBV, BP 35327, 35653 Le Rheu cedex, France CETIOM, BP 04, 78850 Thiverval Grrignon, France
国际会议
第十二届国际油菜大会( The 12th International Rapeseed Congress)
武汉
英文
177-179
2007-03-26（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）