Genetic Diversity, Population Structure, and Parentage Analysis of Croatian Grapevine Germplasm.

ABSTRACT: Croatian viticulture was most extensive at the beginning of the 20th century, when about 400 varieties were in use. Autochthonous varieties are the result of spontaneous hybridization from the pre-phylloxera era and are still cultivated today on about 35 % of vineyard area, while some exist only in repositories. We present what is the most comprehensive genetic analysis of all major Croatian national repositories, with a large number of microsatellite, or simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers, and it is also the first study to apply single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers. After 212 accessions were fingerprinted, 95 were classified as unique to Croatian germplasm. Genetic diversity of Croatian germplasm is rather high considering its size. SNP markers proved useful for fingerprinting b

SUBMITTER: Zulj Mihaljevic M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7397172 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature