Development of Pollen Parent Cultivar-Specific SCAR Markers and a Multiplex SCAR-PCR System for Discrimination between Pollen Parent and Seed Parent in Citrus.

ABSTRACT: This study discusses the challenge of distinguishing between two high-quality mandarin cultivars, 'Asumi' and 'Asuki', which have been introduced and cultivated in Korea after being developed through crossbreeding in Japan. Owing to genetic similarities resulting from crossbreeding between the same parent cultivars, it is challenging to differentiate them morphologically at the seedling stage. This difficulty poses challenges for cultivation and harvesting on farms. To address this issue, we developed a method using sequence characteristic amplification region (SCAR) markers for rapid and accurate differentiation between the two cultivars. We selected specific primer sets from random amplified polymorphic DNA-SCAR combinations and sequence-related amplified polymorphism contrast markers. T

SUBMITTER: Kim SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10708447 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature