LI Qinglin
College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University/State Key Laboratory of Crop BiologyThe planning subject of 'the twelfth five-year-plan' in national science and technology for the rural development in China(2011BAD35B01);National High-tech R&D Program (863 Program)(2012AA101104);Agricultural biological resources innovation use project in shandong province
Silk is the main sexual organs of maize, and the normal development and morphogenesis of silk is crucial for the reproduction and yield of seed. We found a natural mutant sk-A7110 that showed an exhaustive deletion of silk, which makes itself suffer the abortion of seed on account of no pollination. Genetic analysis indicates that the mutation is controlled by a single recessive nucleus gene SKA7110. The SKA7110 is localized in a 255kp physical distance between the markers SAG21 and IDP1453 on chromosome 2 according to the gene mapping result by using bulked segregation analysis. The work of this study provides a basis for cloning and functional analysis of SKA7110.