Ginger is a vegetable with medicinal and culinary properties widely cultivated in the Southern and Southeastern Brazil. The knowledge of ginger species' genetic variability is essential to direct correctly future studies of conservation and genetic improvement, but in Brazil, little is known about this species' genetic variability. In this study, we analyzed the genetic diversity and structure of 55 Brazilian accessions and 6 Colombian accessions of ginger, using AFLP (Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism) molecular markers. The molecular characterization was based on 13 primers combinations, which generated an average of 113.5 polymorphic loci. The genetic diversity estimates of Nei (Hj), Shannon-Weiner index (I) and an effective number of alleles (n ) were greater in the Colombian accessions in relation to the Brazilian accessions. The analysis of molecular variance showed that most of the genetic variation occurred between the two countries while in the Brazilian populations there is no genetic structure and probably each region harbors 100 % of genetic variation found in the samples. The bayesian model-based clustering and the dendrogram using the dissimilarity's coefficient of Jaccard were congruent with each other and showed that the Brazilian accessions are highly similar between themselves, regardless of the geographic region of origin. We suggested that the exploration of the interspecific variability and the introduction of new varieties of Z.officinale are viable alternatives for generating diversity in breeding programs in Brazil. The introduction of new genetic materials will certainly contribute to a higher genetic basis of such crop.
Chemical and genetic diversity of ginger germplasm (Zingiber officinale) Plant genetic resources exhibit a true and potential value for agriculture due to their importance in breeding and conservation programs. This study aimed to characterize the genetic and chemistry diversity of ginger germplasm of Genetics Department of the ESALQ/USP, through 18 phenotypic descriptors, 13 AFLP markers combinations and chemical composition analysis of essential oil. The germplasm was combined by accessions coming from diferent Brazilian states, along with some accessions introduced from Colombia. During the collection, 34 farmers were interviewed in three states: São Paulo (SP), Espírito Santo (ES) and Paraná (PR). Ginger is mainly cultivated by small farmers whose main income source is agriculture. In the chemical composition analysis, a total of 61 compounds were identified. The accessions presented chemical variability according to the analysis of variance. The essential oil was rich in monoterpenes (82.35%), being the geranial (20.41%) and the neral (13.36%), both referred to as citral, the most abundant compounds. The α-zingiberene, 1,8-cineole, linalool and β-phellandrene compounds were relevant in the chemical diversity analysis of the accessions, while the dendrogram based on the complete linkage method (LC-VD) classified the germplasm into two groups: landraces and cultivars accessions. In the agromorphologic characterization, qualitative traits showed little variation, while moderate to low variability was observed for quantitative traits, although some divergent accessions were identified. The principal component analysis explained 82% of the total variation in the first three components, wherein the accessions distribution on the scatter plot was consistent with the groups formed by the Tocher method, with the Gen-18, Gen-24, Gen-65 and Gen-42 accessions as the most divergent ones from the phenotypically germplasm. In the molecular characterization, 13 AFLP markers combinations generated an average of 113.5 polymorphic loci, with a ratio of 96.85% of polymorphism in the overall collection. Estimates of Nei genetic diversity (H j), Shannon index (I) and alleles effective number (n e) were higher in Colombian accessions (0.501; 0.396 and 1.508, respectively). The AMOVA showed that most of the variation (63%) occurs between the two countries and the F ST =0.153 index suportted this result, indicating high genetic differentiation between Brazilian and Colombian accessions. The groupings provided by Structure and the dendrogram based on Jaccard coefficient complement were consistent with each other and showed that Brazilian accessions are genetically similar. In general, there is no influence of the accesses geographic origin in the chemical, phenotypic and molecular grouping pattern. The introduction of new genetic materials in Brazil, will certainly contribute to a broader genetic basis of this species.
The analysis of the genetic diversity of ginger based on agronomic traits is essential to know its performance and to design breeding programs. In this study, we analyzed the phenotypic variability of 61 accessions of the ginger germplasm collection of the "Luiz de Queiroz" College of Agriculture at the University of Sao Paulo (ESALQ/USP) in a complete randomized block design with four replications. An analysis of variance test was performed and genetic parameters such as heritability, genetic variance, environmental variance, genetic-environmental variation ratio (CVg/CVe) and genetic correlations were estimated. There were highly significant differences (P≤0.01) among the accessions for all the agronomic traits analyzed. The CVg/CVe ratio (>1), along with the high heritability (>80%), showed a significant contribution of genetic factors on the phenotypic expression of plant height, rhizome thickness and yield traits, favoring the clonal selection of genotypes. Accessions Gen-29, Gen-29, Gen-32, Gen-36, Gen-37, Gen-40, Gen-41, Gen-42, Gen-50 were selected due to the best agronomic performance when compared to the rest of the germplasm. The results obtained may be useful in future breeding programs in Brazil.
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