Journal
AGRICULTURE-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/agriculture11060482
Keywords
antioxidants; ISSR; MRA; phenotypic traits; SCoT; traits-markers association study
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- Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, under the call RESEARCH-CREATE-INNOVATE [T1EDK-05438]
- Operation Program Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (EPAN II), in region Macedonia-Thrace [13SMEs2009]
- Operation Program Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (EPAN II), in region Crete [13SMEs2009]
- Operation Program Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (EPAN II), in region Aegean Islands [13SMEs2009]
- Operation Program Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (EPAN II), in region Thessaly-Mainland Greece-Epirus [13SMEs2009]
- Operation Program Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (EPAN II), in region Attica [13SMEs2009]
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This study investigated the fruit phenotypic and genetic variability, and relationships in 26 Greek and foreign pomegranate cultivars/accessions. Results showed low variability at both phenotypic and genotypic levels. The association study between phenotypic traits and molecular markers obtained using Multiple Regression Analysis could be valuable for marker-assisted breeding programs.
Pomegranate is one of the oldest known fruit crops, well adapted to hot and dry areas and successfully grown in Mediterranean countries. During the last two decades, numerous publications have revealed the traditionally known associations between pomegranate consumption and health benefits, which led to increased demand by consumers and expansion in cultivation areas. Pomegranate is well adapted to areas with diverse pedoclimatic conditions and local cultivars could provide an essential source of genes for breeding. In this study, fruit phenotypic and genetic variability, and relationships, were studied in 26 Greek and foreign pomegranate cultivars/accessions grown in an ex situ collection located in Naoussa Greece, using Inter Simple Sequence Repeat (ISSR) and Start Codon Targeted (SCoT) molecular markers. Results from the principal component analysis made on fruit phenotypic characters revealed five components that accounted for 74.8% of the total variance, the first being related to skin color parameters and the second to juice antioxidant contents and aril color. Clustering from phenotypic data allocated individuals into four clusters. A total of 184 bands were generated for all markers applied across the 26 pomegranate cultivars/accessions, with an average of 77 bands per ISSR markers and 82 bands for SCoT markers. Low variability in the phenotypic and genotypic level was indicated; nevertheless, results from the association study between phenotypic traits and molecular markers that were obtained using Multiple Regression Analysis (MRA) could prove valuable for marker-assisted breeding programs, especially from SCoT markers that were found to be strongly or averagely associated with the morphological traits and chemical components.
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