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Impact of Mapped SSR Markers on the Genetic Diversity of Apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.) in Tunisia

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The impact of mapped microsatellites on the study of genetic diversity of Tunisian apricot accessions was assessed. The genetic variability of 47 traditional apricot cultivars originating from several areas in Tunisia was investigated with 32 polymorphic microsatellite loci selected for their location throughout the eight linkage groups of Prunus genome. The higher polymorphism and greater transportability of these markers among Prunus species were proved by the expected heterozygosity (He = 0.56) and Shannon’s index of diversity (I = 1.05), indicating that Tunisian apricot germplasm maintained a substantial level of genetic diversity. According to their geographical origin, the genetic differentiation among groups (north, center, and south; Fst = 0.04) was lower, while the gene flow among groups was consequent (Nm = 4.79), attesting a narrow genetic background of apricot in the country. Both unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic mean dendrogram, based on Nei’s genetic distances and factorial correspondence analysis, separated northern cultivars from central and southern cultivars, revealing the same molecular basis of apricot material in the Center and the South of Tunisia. These results revealed the efficiency of mapped markers for genetic variability measurements compared to randomly ones, however, no advantage was observed considering the genetic relationships among studied accessions.

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Abbreviations

AFLP:

Amplified fragment length polymorphism

DNA:

Deoxyribonucleic acid

FCA:

Factorial correspondence analysis

LG:

Linkage group

PCR:

Polymerase chain reactions

SSR:

Simple sequence repeat

UPGMA:

Unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic mean

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Acknowledgments

This work was partially funded by the “Institut Français de Coopération” (project CMCU 05G0904) and by the Tunisian “Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche Scientifique” (Project Lab B02). The authors would like to thank Mr. Sylvain Santoni (SupAgro Montpellier, France) for his involvement in microsatellite genotyping. Authors kindly acknowledge Dr. A. Hadidi (National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350, USA) for his fruitful comments and for checking the language on the manuscript.

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  1. Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Immunologie et Biotechnologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Campus universitaire, 2092, El Manar, Tunisie

    Hedia Bourguiba, Lamia Krichen & Neila Trifi-Farah

  2. INRA, UR 1052 Génétique et Amélioration des Fruits et Légumes, Domaine, Saint-Maurice, 81143, Montfavet, France

    Jean-Marc Audergon

  3. INRA, UMR 1098 Développement et Amélioration des Plantes, 2 Place Viala, 34060, Montpellier cedex 1, France

    Bouchaib Khadari

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Bourguiba, H., Krichen, L., Audergon, JM. et al. Impact of Mapped SSR Markers on the Genetic Diversity of Apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.) in Tunisia. Plant Mol Biol Rep 28, 578–587 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11105-010-0189-x

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