Organization and mapping of legumin genes in Pisum

The organization of three classes of legumin gene has been studied by exploiting restriction fragment length polymorphisms. Hybridization of cDNA probes, representing different sub-families of legumin gene, to DNA from F2 and F6 plants from selected crosses showed that there was a tight linkage of individual genes within each of two sub-families. One of these sub-families has been mapped to a locus on chromosome 7 close to r, while the other maps to a locus near a on chromosome 1. The results from one of the crosses analyzed indicated that a third class of legumin gene is also linked to a.