Open AccessGenetic diversity of Chilean and Brazilian Alstroemeria species assessed by AFLP analysis
Author(s) -
Han TaeHo,
De Jeu Marjo,
Van Eck Herman,
Jacobsen Evert
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
heredity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.441
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1365-2540
pISSN - 0018-067X
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2000.00682.x
Subject(s) - biology , amplified fragment length polymorphism , genetic diversity , botany , amaryllidaceae , interspecific competition , genus , dendrogram , population , demography , sociology
One to three accessions of 22 Alstroemeria species, an interspecific hybrid ( A. aurea × A. inodora ), and single accessions of Bomarea salsilla and Leontochir ovallei were evaluated using the AFLP‐marker technique to estimate the genetic diversity within the genus Alstroemeria . Three primer combinations generated 716 markers and discriminated all Alstroemeria species. The dendrogram inferred from the AFLP fingerprints supported the conjecture of the generic separation of the Chilean and Brazilian Alstroemeria species. The principal co‐ordinate plot showed the separate allocation of the A. ligtu group and the allocation of A. aurea , which has a wide range of geographical distribution and genetic variation, in the middle of other Alstroemeria species. The genetic distances, based on AFLP markers, determined the genomic contribution of the parents to the interspecific hybrid.