ACTA AGRICULTURAE BOREALI-SINICA ›› 2015, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (2): 145-149. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.2015.02.026

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Diversity of Cultivated Chestnuts and It's Close Relative Species Using Chloroplast SSRs

CHENG Li-li1,2, HU Guang-long1, SU Shu-chai2, HUANG Wu-gang1   

  1. 1. Institute of Forestry Pomology Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Beijing Engineering Research Center for Deciduous Fruit Trees, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops(North China), Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100093, China;
    2. Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation, Ministry of Education, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
  • Received:2014-12-26 Published:2015-04-28

Abstract: The objective of the study is to elucidate the genetic relationship and genetic diversity of Castanea species.Based on the technology of chloroplast microsatellite markers, of total 24 cpSSR primer pairs screened, only four presented length polymorphism in the Castanea mollissima tested.We surveyed 6 species, altogether 56 materials with cpSSR markers in order to estimate genetic variation and genetic structure.In the castanea plants, average number of alleles (Na), effective number of alleles (Ne), expected heterozygosity (He) and Nei's were 3.25, 2.554, 0.606 and 0.320, respectively.Apparently, the parameters of cpSSR loci were much lower than those revealed by nuclear SSRs.Furthermore, the intra-specific genetic diversity was high but varied greatly among different species, the wild chestnut in China showed the highest genetic diversity, which one was rich in heredity and variation.The results have important implications of understanding the population genetics and evolutionary patterns in the genus Castanea and provide baseline data for formulating the conservation and management strategies.

Key words: Castanea mollissima BL., cpSSR DNA, Genetic diversity, Sequence

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CHENG Li-li, HU Guang-long, SU Shu-chai, HUANG Wu-gang. Diversity of Cultivated Chestnuts and It's Close Relative Species Using Chloroplast SSRs[J]. ACTA AGRICULTURAE BOREALI-SINICA, 2015, 30(2): 145-149. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.2015.02.026.

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