Journal
AGRONOMY-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/agronomy11040680
Keywords
Prunus avium L.; sweet cherry; AFLP; MSAP; phenotypic diversity
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- Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) [148]
- General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) [148]
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Sweet cherry germplasm exhibits high phenotypic variation, which may be a result of genetic or epigenetic diversity. The genetic diversity was found to be greater than epigenetic diversity, and epigenetic diversity was shown to have a stronger impact on phenotypic traits in predefined populations of sweet cherry than genetic diversity.
Sweet cherry germplasm contains a high variety of phenotypes which are associated with fruit size and shape as well as sugar content, etc. High phenotypic variation can be a result of genetic or epigenetic diversity that may interact through time. Recent studies have provided evidence that besides allelic variation, epiallelic variation can establish new heritable phenotypes. Herein we conducted a genetic and an epigenetic study (using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) and methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) markers, respectively), accompanied by phenotypic traits correlation analysis in sweet cherry gene pools. The mean genetic diversity was greater than the epigenetic diversity (h(gen) = 0.193; h(epi) = 0.185), while no significant relationship was found between genetic and epigenetic distance according to a Mantel test. Furthermore, according to correlation analyses our results provided evidence that epigenetic diversity in predefined populations of sweet cherry had a stronger impact on phenotypic traits than their rich genetic diversity.
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