Coffea canephora: Heterotic Crosses Indicated by Molecular Approach.

ABSTRACT: The genus Coffea comprises more than 100 species, of which the most commercially important are Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora. The latter is a self-incompatible plant with high natural genetic variability. The detection of polymorphism at the DNA level by molecular markers allowed significant progress with the selection of superior plants. The objective of this study was the molecular characterization of C. canephora using microsatellite markers. To this end, a population of forty-four C. canephora genotypes and one C. arabica genotype, was evaluated with 21 primers. These primers identified 61 alleles in the population and between 2 and 5 alleles per locus. The information index indicated a high level of polymorphism of the analyzed markers. Accordi

SUBMITTER: Sousa P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9692650 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature