Genetic diversity of Poa pratensis L. depending on geographical origin and compared with genetic markers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Poa pratensis is one of the most common species of meadow grass in Europe. Most cultivars of the species found in Poland were originally derived from its ecotypes. We compared the effectiveness of the RAPD and ISSR methods in assessing the genetic diversity of the selected populations of P. pratensis. We examined whether these methods could be useful for detecting a possible link between the geographical origin of a given population and its assessed genetic variation.

Methods

The molecular markers RAPD and ISSR were used and their efficiency compared using, inter alia, statistical multivariate methods (UPGMA and PCA).

Results

The low value of Dice's coefficient (0.369) along with the significantly high percentage of polymorphic products indica

SUBMITTER: Szenejko M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5045881 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature