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Genetic diversity and differentiation of Chinese wild soybean germplasm ( G. soja Sieb. & Zucc.) in geographical scale revealed by SSR markers
Author(s) -
Li X. H.,
Wang K. J.,
Jia J. Z.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
plant breeding
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.583
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1439-0523
pISSN - 0179-9541
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0523.2009.01625.x
Subject(s) - germplasm , glycine soja , biology , genetic diversity , locus (genetics) , allele , gene pool , genetic distance , genetic variation , genetics , botany , gene , population , glycine , demography , amino acid , sociology
Wild soybean ( Glycine soja ), as the progenitor of soybeans ( G. max ), is widely distributed in China and has been collected as a supplementary germplasm pool of soybeans. In this study, 375 wild soybean accessions from a set of genebank core collection were analysed for genetic diversity by using 42 simple sequence repeat primer pairs. The mean allele number per locus was 19.62. Ten‐percent unique alleles involving 35 or 83.33% loci differentiated among the geographical regions. The mean gene diversity ( h ) per locus was 0.89. A very low mean coefficient of gene differentiation ( G ST = 0.08) for geographical regions and a high mean within‐region gene diversity ( H S = 0.81) were observed, indicating that most genetic diversity existed within the regions. There was an obvious relationship between genetic distance and geographical distance. The results showed multiple centers of genetic diversity for Chinese wild soybean in North China, the Huanghe River Valley, and Central China as well as the Changjiang River Valley, implicating multiple site origins of soybeans within China.