Journal of Genetics

, Volume 97, Issue 1, pp 189–203 | Cite as

Identification of SSR and retrotransposon-based molecular markers linked to morphological characters in oily sunflower (\(\textit{Helianthus annuus}\) L.) under natural and water-limited states

  • Soleimani Gezeljeh Ali
  • Reza Darvishzadeh
  • Asa Ebrahimi
  • Mohammad Reza Bihamta
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Abstract

Sunflower is an important source of edible oil. Drought is known as an important factor limiting the growth and productivity of field crops in most parts of the world. Agricultural biotechnology mainly aims at developing crops with higher tolerance to the challenging environmental conditions, such as drought. This study examined a number of morphological characters, along with relative water content (RWC) in 100 inbred sunflower lines. A 10 \(\times \) 10 simple lattice design with two replications was employed to measure the mentioned parameters under natural and water-limited states during two successive years. In molecular trial, 30 simple sequence repeat (SSR) primer pairs, as well as 14 inter-retrotransposon amplified polymorphism (IRAP) and 14 retrotransposon-microsatellite amplified polymorphism (REMAP) primer combinations were used for DNA fingerprinting of the lines. Most of the examined characters had lower average values under water-limited than natural states. Maximum and minimum reductions were observed in the cases of yield and oil percentage, respectively. The broad-sense heritabilities for all the examined characters were 0.20–0.73 and 0.10–0.34 under natural and water-limited states, respectively. In the studied samples, 8.97% of the 435 possible locus pairs of the SSRs represented significant linkage disequilibrium (LD) levels. In the association analysis using SSR markers, 22 and 21 markers were identified (\(P \le 0.05\)) for the studied characters under natural and water-limited states, respectively. The corresponding values were 50 and 37 using retrotransposon-based molecular markers. Some detected markers were communal between the characters under water-limited and natural states. This was in line with the phenotypic correlations detected between the characters. Communal markers facilitate the simultaneous selection of several characters and can thus improve the efficacy of selection based on markers in the plant-breeding activities.

Keywords

linkage disequilibrium microsatellite marker oily sunflower retrotransposon-based molecular marker water-stressed states 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Soleimani Gezeljeh Ali
    • 1
  • Reza Darvishzadeh
    • 2
  • Asa Ebrahimi
    • 1
  • Mohammad Reza Bihamta
    • 3
  1. 1.Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Science and Research BranchIslamic Azad UniversityTehranIran
  2. 2.Department of Plant Breeding and BiotechnologyUrmia UniversityUrmiaIran
  3. 3.Faculty of AgricultureTehran UniversityKarajIran

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