Development, characterization and use of genomic SSR markers for assessment of genetic diversity in some Saudi date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) cultivars

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• 作者：Sulieman A. Al-Faifi^a ; Hussein M. Migdadi^a ; ^{hmigdadi@ksu.edu.sa" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; ^{h.migdadi@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Salem S. Algamdi^a ; Mohammad Altaf Khan^a ; Megahed H. Ammar^a ; Rashid S. Al-Obeed^a ; Mohammad I. Al-Thamra^a ; Ehab H. EL-Harty^a ; Jerenj Jakse^b
• 关键词：Expected and observed heterozygosity ; Microsatellite markers ; Polymorphic information content ; Polymorphism ; Primer discrimination power
• 刊名：Electronic Journal of Biotechnology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：May 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：21
• 期：Complete
• 页码：18-25
• 全文大小：374 K

文摘

The present study was undertaken towards the development of SSR markers and assessing genetic relationships among 32 date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) representing common cultivars grown in different geographical regions in Saudi Arabia.

Results

Ninety-three novel simple sequence repeat markers were developed and screened for their ability to detect polymorphism in date palm. Around 71% of genomic SSRs were dinucleotide, 25% tri, 3% tetra and 1% penta nucleotide motives. Twenty-two primers generated a total of 91 alleles with a mean of 4.14 alleles per locus and 100% polymorphism percentage. A 0.595 average polymorphic information content and 0.662 primer discrimination power values were recorded. The expected and observed heterozygosities were 0.676 and 0.763 respectively. Pair-wise similarity values ranged from 0.06 to 0.89 and the overall cultivars averaged 0.41. The UPGMA cluster analysis recovered by principal coordinate analysis illustrated that cultivars tend to group according to their class of maturity, region of cultivation, and fruit color. Analysis of molecular variations (AMOVA) revealed that genetic variation among and within cultivars were 27% and 73%, respectively according to geographical distribution of cultivars.

Conclusions

The developed microsatellite markers are additional values to date palm characterization tools that can be used by researchers in population genetics, cultivar identification as well as genetic resource exploration and management. The tested cultivars exhibited a significant amount of genetic diversity and could be suitable for successful breeding program. Genomic sequences generated from this study are available at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Sequence Read Archive (Accession numbers. LIBGSS_039019).