JOURNAL OF NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY ›› 2022, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (3): 127-133.doi: 10.12302/j.issn.1000-2006.202105011

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Genetic diversity among wild populations of pomegranate in Tibet by SSR analyses

GE Dapeng1(), REN Yuan1, ZHAO Jun2, WANG Yuting2, LIU Xueqing3, YUAN Zhaohe1,*()   

  1. 1. Co-innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
    2. Institute of Forestry Science of Tibet Autonomous Region, Lhasa 850000, China
    3. Yantai Academy of Agricultural Science, Yantai 265500, China
  • Received:2021-05-10 Accepted:2021-07-24 Online:2022-05-30 Published:2022-06-10
  • Contact: YUAN Zhaohe E-mail:gedapeng@njfu.edu.cn;zhyuan88@hotmail.com

Abstract:

【Objective】Wild pomegranate (Punica granatum) accessions were found in Tibet. To facilitate the conservation and use of wild pomegranate germplasm, the genetic diversity and population structure of three wild pomegranate populations from Tibet were studied.【Method】Primers for 13 SSR loci were used for PCR amplification of 42 wild individuals from from populations, and the amplified fragment length was determined using capillary electrophoresis. SSR data were analyzed using GenAlEx and Arlequin softwares.【Result】A total of 44 alleles were detected using 13 pairs of primers with an average of 3.835 alleles per locus. The mean values for the effective number of alleles (Ne), Shannon’s Information Index (I), expected heterozygosity (He) and the polymorphism information content (PIC) per locus were 1.971, 0.771, 0.481 and 0.393, respectively. The mean Ne, I and He of three wild populations were 1.867, 0.646 and 0.421, respectively. In the three populations of wild pomegranate accessions, the genetic diversity of the LZb population was higher than that of the CD and LZa populations. The AMOVA results showed that the percentage of genetic variation within populations was 88.43%, whereas the variance among populations was 11.57%. The Fst among the three wild populations was 0.116. Cluster analysis grouped the 42 accessions into three distinct clusters. Cluster analysis was found to be correlated with geographic origin. The most appropriate number of subpopulations was found to be K=4 using structure analysis.【Conclusion】A total of 13 SSR primers were found to be suitable for genetic diversity analysis of wild pomegranate accessions in Tibet. The genetic variance of wild pomegranate accessions in Tibet was mainly within populations. With having the highest genetic diversity and rich sampling sites, the LZb population merits should be a conservation priority.

Key words: wild populations of pomegranate (Punica granatum), SSR, genetic diversity, genetic structure, Tibet

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