Development and validation of gas chromatography and real-time quantitative PCR for the quantification of landscape-scale gene flow from varieties of high erucic acid (HEAR) oilseed rape

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Cullen, D. W., Squire, G. R., Mcnicol, J. W., Jacobs, J. H., Osborne, J. L., Ford, L., Ramsay, G., Scrimgeour, C. and Young, M. W. 2008. Development and validation of gas chromatography and real-time quantitative PCR for the quantification of landscape-scale gene flow from varieties of high erucic acid (HEAR) oilseed rape. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 88 (13), pp. 2253-2264. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.3340

AuthorsCullen, D. W., Squire, G. R., Mcnicol, J. W., Jacobs, J. H., Osborne, J. L., Ford, L., Ramsay, G., Scrimgeour, C. and Young, M. W.
Abstract

BACKGROUND: High erucic acid oilseed rape (HEAR) was tested as a source crop for estimates of regional geneflow. Two methods to detect HEAR in low erucic acid oilseed rape (LEAR) were compared: real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) and gas chromatography (GC). RESULTS: Fields (2.5 ha) of a LEAR variety (0.028% EA) in Tayside and Hertfordshire were juxtaposed adjacent to and I km distant from a HEAR (44% EA) field. The LEAR variety was a varietal association to ensure high cross-pollination (CP). The methods were highly correlated, measuring between 30% and 0.5% CP. However, the qPCR method became unreliable below 0.5% CP, whereas GC was robust enough to detect raised EA equivalent to one F1 seed in 500 (0.2%). A statistical mixture model was fitted to the distributions of EA in samples in order to assign a CP value to each 500-seed sample. Declines of CP from 30% to < 1%, and EA from 5% to 0.2%, with distance up to 150 m in the near fields was best fitted with a power function. The combined mean EA for both far fields was 0.11%, well above the background LEAR value of 0.028%, and mean CP was 0.36%. CONCLUSIONS: The GC method of detection raised %EA should be a reliable and high-throughput means of estimating %CP between fields, provided the %EA of single F1 seed in receptor fields is measured to confirm the presence of F1 seed. (c) 2008 Society of Chemical Industry.

KeywordsAgriculture, Multidisciplinary; Chemistry, Applied; Food Science & Technology
Year of Publication2008
JournalJournal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
Journal citation88 (13), pp. 2253-2264
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.3340
Open accessPublished as non-open access
FunderCentral Science Laboratory - CSL MAFF
ADAS
NIAB
NERC - Natural Environment Research Council - Centre for Ecology Hydrology - CEH
Funder project or codeSEF
Project: 4554
Functional biodiversity: mechanisms by which plant and invertebrate communities function in the arable ecosystem
ISSN00225142
0022-5142
PublisherWiley

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