Molecular and environmental analysis of Campania (Italy) sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) cultivars for biocultural refugia identification and conservation.

ABSTRACT: Conservation of agrobiodiversity is a major concern worldwide. Several strategies have been designed and programmed to reduce biodiversity erosion due to anthropic and non-anthropic causes. To this end, we set up a multidisciplinary approach based on the genetic analysis of selected cultivars and recognition of the environmental parameters. We genotyped the sweet cherry cultivars of Campania region in southern Italy by using simple sequence repeats and further investigated them by cluster analysis, disclosing a homogeneous genetic constitution, different from that of commercial accessions. By structure analysis we identified three distinct genetic clusters, each characterized by common and distinct alleles. Survey of the cultivars' geographical distribution by quartic kernel function ident

SUBMITTER: Muccillo L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6494815 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature