African Journal of
Biotechnology

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Biotechnol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1684-5315
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJB
  • Start Year: 2002
  • Published Articles: 12487

Full Length Research Paper

Studies of the genetic diversity of seven sweetsop (Annona squamosa L.) cultivars by amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis

  Zhao Zhichang1,2, Hu guibing1*, Ouyang Ruo1, Liu Yunchun1, Chen Yeyuan2 and Luo Shirong2
  1College of Horticulture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China. 2Tropical Germplasm Resources Research Institute, CATAS, Danzhou, Hainan, 571737, China.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 15 April 2011
  •  Published: 13 July 2011

Abstract

 

Seven sweetsop germplasm resources were studied, and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis system was established by detecting the results of several reactions, such as DNA extraction, enzyme restriction, ligation, preamplification and selective amplification in the reaction system of AFLP. The seven germplasm resources of sweetsop were studied by using AFLP technique, and UPGMA clustering results showed genetic distance of 0.572 ~ 0.818. Small genetic distance was 0.572 between ‘Yuanhua’ sweetsop and other sweetsop cultivars; high genetic distance was 0.818 between ‘AP’ and ‘Fenglishijia’ sweetsop. These results suggested that there was relative family relationship between them. This aims to study the family relationship in seven sweetsop germplasms resources, in order to select parents in sweetsop breeding and grafted rootstock.

 

Key words: Sweetsop, DNA extraction, amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP), genetic diversity.

Abbreviation

PCR, Polymerase chain reaction; CTAB, cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide; EDTA, ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid; AFLP, amplified fragment length polymorphism; BSA, bulked segregant analysis; RAPD, random amplified polymorphic DNA.