본 연구에서는 국내 콩 유전체의 변이밀집영역(dVB)에서 유 래한 27개 InDel 마커를 신품종 20개에 적용하여 품종판별용 마커로서 범용성을 검증하고 신품종의 구별성과 국내 품종의 유전적 다양성을 확인하였다. 20개 신품종과 MyCrops에 포함된 기존 149개 품종과의 유사도는 평균 61.3%이고, 최저 25.9%에서 최대 96.3%의 유사도로 완전 일치(100%)되는 바코드는 없어 20개 신품종의 유전적 구별성을 모두 확인할 수 있었다. 유연관계를 분석한 결과에서는 신품종을 포함한 국내 169품종이 4개의 유전집단으로 구분되었으며 풋콩 및 단기성 콩의 80%가 I-2 소그룹, 나물콩의 65.9%가 II-2 소그룹에 주로 속한 반면, 장류 및 두부콩은 I-1 (44.4%), I-2 (26.4%), II-2 (23.6%) 소그룹에 고르게 분포하였다. 20개 신품종에 대한 계보도는 나물콩 주요 계보와 장류 및 두부콩으로 크게 두 그룹으로 나누어지며 유연 관계분석을 뒷받침하였다. 품종판별을 위한 최소 마커를 선발 하기 위해 PIC가 높은 공통마커와 품종별 특이마커를 선발하는 2단계 과정을 통해 품종에 따라 7~9개의 최소 마커로 신품종의 진위를 판별할 수 있었다. 이처럼 콩 변이밀집영역에서 유래된 27개 InDel 마커와 이를 이용한 신품종 바코드 정보의 지속적인 업데이트는 수입산에 대한 국산 품종의 보호와 육성가의 권리 증진에 기여하며, 더불어 육종과정 중 신규 유전변이를 도입하고 목표형질을 선발하는 등 육종 효율을 개선하는데도 도움이 될 것으로 기대한다.

An important worldwide plant source of dietary protein and oil, modern breeding and improvement of soybean is suffered from a narrow cultivated germplasm relative to other crop species likely because of underuse of wild soybeans as breeding resources. SNP genotyping array is regarded as a promising tool for dissecting wild and cultivated germplasms to find important adaptive genes by high-density genetic mapping and genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Here, we present the establishment of a large soybean SNP array and its use for diversity analysis and high density linkage mapping. More than 4 million high-quality SNPs identified from 16 high-depth and 31 low-depth soybean genome resequencing data were used to select 180,961 SNPs for the AxiomÒ SoyaSNP array. Our validation analysis for a set of 222 diverse soybean lines showed that a total of 171,161markers were of good quality for genotyping. Of the converted SNPs, 82.6% 82.6% SNPs had a marker spacing of less than 9 kb and 17.4% SNPs greater than 9 kb with the 297 inter-SNP spacings of >100 kb and with 812 kb of the largest spacing, thereby suggesting that our array is likely suitable for GWAS of soybean germplasm. This array is being used to construct high-density genetic map in populations generated from intermatings of two cultivated and two wild soybeans, with an objective to confirm large structural variations of chromosomes using the ultra-high-density maps

Most soybean cultivars have ovate leaflets, although a few cultivars have narrow or lanceolate leaflets. Narrow leaflet cultivars tend to have more seeds produced per pod than ovate leaflet cultivars, suggesting that the narrow leaflet trait is tightly linked to or cosegregating with the trait controlling number of seeds produced per pod (nspp). The objective of this study was to construct a high resolution map of a chromosomal region controlling narrow leaflet trait and nspp in soybean. A BC3F2 population from a cross between 'Sowonkong' and 'V94-5152' was used. Sowonkong have narrow leaflet and 4-seeded pod and V94-5152 have ovate leaflet and do not have 4-seeded pod. The plants of F2 populations showed a segregation ratio of 3:1 of ovate leaflet to narrow leaflet and then leaflet genotypes were obtained from F2:3 population of each F2 individual. The narrow leaflet-containing plants showed Sowonkong-like pod trait and the ovate leaflet-containing plants V94-5152-like pod trait. The results suggested that, in our mapping population, a single gene controls inheritance of the narrow leaflet character and the narrow leaflet trait is tightly linked to or co-segregating with the trait controlling nspp. Subsequently, we mapped the narrow leaflet locus near Sat_105, Satt270 and SM315 on soybean linkage group I that corresponds with the previously known ln locus. Work is ongoing to construct a fine molecular genetic linkage map on this MLG I region and to find a linkage relationship between ln and nspp. Our results should facilitate further elucidation for the relationship between ln/nspp and yield.