Phenotype and molecular diversity evaluation of some wild 2n Solanum species (super series Rotata)

Abstract

New cultivars are result of the conservation and characterization of potato (Solanum) genetic resources in secondary germplasm banks. The objectives of this study were to assess phenotype diversity of 12 clones of 10 wild diploid potato species collection super series Rotata, and to determine their genetic diversity through simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. Totally 63 alleles of 20 cpSSR loci were detected i.e. 3.15 alleles on average per one microsatellite locus. Alleles ranged from two to six per locus. The highest polymorphism was detected in the locus ntcp9 and lowest were recorded having by two alleles in seven of loci. The average value of observed heterozygosity (Ho) was 0.61, whereas the mean of polymorphic information contents (PIC) was 0.49. Intergenic regions had highest variability (Higr = 0.65) compare with introns (Hin = 0.54) and exons (Hex = 0.45) of the chloroplast genome. Molecular analyses were complemented with tuft morphological measurements according to the descriptor list for the genus Solanum. SSR-based markers highlight a tendency to separate two groups of Rotata wild diploids and show the possibility of duplicities of wild potato genetic resources in the current Czech in vitro collection.

Spatial Scale Patterns of Genetic Diversity and Gene Flow in Populations of Sweet Detar (Detarium microcarpum Guill. & Perr.; Fabaceae)

“…Rate of expected heterozygosity (He) or genetic diversity of Nei was calculated by locus according to the formula∶ He = 1-∑ ( ) 2 , where is the frequency of the allele i at the considered locus (Nei 1987). The average expected heterozygosity rate of the loci was calculated by population and also by chromosomal region, in order to determine the level of genetic variability of the microsatellite sequences of the coding and non-coding regions of the cpDNA of D. microcarpum (Zeka et al 2015). Rate of observed heterozygosity (Ho) was calculated from the measured frequency of heterozygotes by: Ho = Nh/(Nt) where Nh is the number of heterozygous individuals and Nt the total number of individuals (Nei 1987).…”