The polymorphism of 13 microsatellite loci in 61 chickpea varieties from the National Center of Genetic Plant Resources of Ukraine was studied. Forty-seven alleles were detected. Three loci were monomorphic; the rest showed polymorphism. The genetic diversity of chickpea varieties in all loci was 0.41 according to the Nei polymorphism index (D). It was concluded that chickpea varieties from Europe had insignificant microsatellite loci diversity. The most polymorphic group included chickpea varieties from Russia (D = 0.38); the least polymorphic group, Spanish varieties (D = 0.25). A consensus tree representing the most credible divergence of Europe chickpea varieties was constructed. The possible reasons for clustering chickpea varieties in a common cluster are discussed.
Microsatellite variation at the nuclear and chloroplast genomes was evaluated for wild European and wild American hops, in order to assess the genetic diversity and origin of cultivated hops. Seven nuclear loci and 32 chloroplast loci were used in the analysis of 182 hop accessions including wild...
Using five SSR markers, polymorphism of microsatellite loci was examined in 46 cultivars and five species of pear (Pyrus ussuriensis, P. bretscgneideri, P. pyraster, and P. elaegnifolia). Most of the accessions examined showed the presence of unique allele sets. The degree of relationship between...
Altamura bread is an Italian baking product that obtained the European mark of protected designation of origin (PDO). The varietal requirements of the official production protocol of this bread require it to be prepared from the durum wheat cultivars Appulo, Duilio, Arcangelo and Simeto (single o...
Public sequence databases provide a rapid, simple and cost-effective source of microsatellite markers. We analyzed 1,532 bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) sequences available in public domain DNA databases, and found 3,241 simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci comprising repeats of two or more nucleot...
Landraces of wheat can serve as important potential sources for extending the genetic basis of selection cultivars. Analysis of microsatellites and typing of polymorphism in a representative sample of 347 genotypes, including landraces and selection cultivars, was performed using a set of 38 sele...
DNA fingerprinting using microsatellites is a useful aid in cultivar identification, but has rarely been applied to garden plants. Eleven microsatellite markers were developed for the valuable garden plant Hesperantha coccinea (Schizostylis coccinea), and used to determine relatedness of accessio...
Quantitative resistance to Globodera pallida pathotype Pa2/3, originally derived from Solanum tuberosum ssp. andigena Commonwealth Potato Collection (CPC) accession 2802, is present in several potato cultivars and advanced breeding lines. One genetic component of this resistance, a large effect q...
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the flanking regions of microsatellite loci (SNPSTRs) help to increase the power of discrimination of short tandem repeat (STR) loci. SNPs are positions in the genome that have been well-conserved over the course of evolution, so analysing them can help d...
Asparagus bean (V. unguiculata ssp. sesquipedialis), a specific form of cowpea (V. unguiculata L. Walp.), is cultivated as a vegetable crop throughout eastern and southern Asia for its tender long pods. Little is known about the genetic relationship between asparagus bean and the broader species,...
We report a preliminary analysis on the relationships between drainage basin structure and genetic structure of populations of the European vector of fasciolosis, Galba truncatula. In the study area, 251 snails belonging to 12 populations were collected along different ditches of a same river net...
