Development of SSR markers and analysis of diversity in Turkish populations of Brachypodium distachyon.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Brachypodium distachyon (Brachypodium) is rapidly emerging as a powerful model system to facilitate research aimed at improving grass crops for grain, forage and energy production. To characterize the natural diversity of Brachypodium and provide a valuable new tool to the growing list of resources available to Brachypodium researchers, we created and characterized a large, diverse collection of inbred lines.

Results

We developed 84 inbred lines from eight locations in Turkey. To enable genotypic characterization of this collection, we created 398 SSR markers from BAC end and EST sequences. An analysis of 187 diploid lines from 56 locations with 43 SSR markers showed considerable genotypic diversity. There was some correlation between SSR genotypes and broad geogr

SUBMITTER: Vogel JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2719641 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature