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Chilean Tetraploid Cultivated Potato, Solanum tuberosum , is Distinct from the Andean Populations
Author(s) -
Raker Celeste M.,
Spooner David M.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
crop science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.76
H-Index - 147
eISSN - 1435-0653
pISSN - 0011-183X
DOI - 10.2135/cropsci2002.1451
Subject(s) - biology , solanum tuberosum , botany , solanaceae , horticulture , genetics , gene
This study tests the genetic difference between landrace populations of Solanum tuberosum L. subsp. tuberosum and subsp. andigenum (Juz. & Bukasov) Hawkes using nuclear DNA microsatellites. Microsatellite loci were amplified in subsp. andigenum (35 accessions), subsp. tuberosum (35 accessions), and other cultivated and wild species (22 accessions). A total of 208 alleles were scored from 18 microsatellite loci spread throughout all 12 chromosomes of potato. Using an infinite allele model and a least squares method of analysis, microsatellite loci separated subsp. tuberosum from subsp. andigenum , and cultivated and wild species. These results support the genetic difference of these two populations and their recognition at some classification level.