1998 Volume 48 Issue 1 Pages 59-62
Common buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum, is a heteromorphic sporophytic self-incompatibility species while an annual wild species, F. homotropicum, is homomorphic self-cornpatible. An F2 population was generated from an interspecific hybrid between them and used to determine the genetic basis of self-compatibility due to homomorphic phenotype. Homostyly appears to be controlled by a single dominant gene (designated “Ho”) as F2 progenies segregated in a 3 homomorpic : 1 heteromorphic flower types. We used RAPD and bulked segregant analysis to identify three markers, OPB141250, OPP81000 and OPQ7800, Iinked to the Ho gene. All three markers were mapped to the same side of the Ho gene with OPB141250 being the closest at 0.6 cM. The mapping of this gene represents a first step toward better understanding of sexual reproduction system in buckwheat. These markers should be useful for marker-assisted selection for introgression of self-compatibility into common buckwheat.