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Book of Abstracts <strong>First</strong> <strong>Legume</strong> <strong>Society</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> 2013: A <strong>Legume</strong> Odyssey Novi Sad, Serbia, 9-11 May 2013<br />

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Double haploids in pigeon pea: Interolog mapping of putative candidate genes<br />

Sameera Panchangam 1, 3 , Prashanth Suravajhala 2 , Nalini Mallikarjuna 1<br />

1 International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, India<br />

2 Bioclues Organization, IKP Knowledge Park, Picket, Secunderabad, India<br />

3 Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies, Secunderabad, India<br />

Double haploids (DH) are promising tools for developing pure breeding lines with complete<br />

homozygosity in a single generation. Crop plants such as pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.),<br />

which is a self-pollinated crop with a narrow genetic base, greatly benefit from DH technology by<br />

accelerating cultivar development. The key to successful production of DH is in the identification<br />

of gene networks, the expressed proteins and interacting partners. Independent studies in model<br />

crops for DH systems such as wheat, maize, tobacco, barley and rapeseed revealed genes<br />

responsible for induction of haploidy under stress conditions. With this background, an in silico<br />

approach was employed to study the genes related to induction of haploidy in pigeonpea.<br />

Interolog based protein interaction analyses was done to identify putative candidates for these<br />

processes. Functional annotation of all proteins when searched against Arabidopsis thaliana protein<br />

sequences showed few plausible proteinswhich could serve as markers and also predict the<br />

androgenic and/or DH competence of the crops of interest.<br />

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