Diversidade genética entre acessos de batata-doce (Ipomoea batatas L.Lam.) avaliada através de marcadores microssatélites e descritores morfoagronômicos / Genetic diversity among accessions of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L. Lam.) assessed with microsatellite markers and morphoagronomic descriptors

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The study of 135 accessions of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L. Lam), from the Germplasm Bank of Embrapa-CNPH, constituted by materials from all Brazilian regions, from CIP-Peru and from the United States, Japan and Peru, with microsatellite markers and morphoagronomic descriptors, provided information about the genetic diversity and distribution of this diversity within and among geographic regions. The objective of this study was to characterize the genetic diversity of 135 accessions of sweet potato with eight microsatellite loci, 21 morphological descriptors, which totaled 124 different characters among the aerial vegetative and tuberous roots traits, and agronomic characters such as the dry matter percentage, moisture percentage and plant yield. We emphasize that even with the high number of accessions (135) and the large number of morphological characters (97) among to aerial vegetative traits assessed in this study, 77% of these traits were expressed and of the tuberous roots (69) morphological traits, 80% of these were expressed. The absence of 23% and 20% of the characters evaluated for aerial vegetative and tuberous roots traits, respectively, may be due to their non-occurrence in the material evaluated, and in part by the difficulty of their identification in the plants, considering that due to the fact of being subjective or qualitative, the results vary with the evaluator, especially for the characteristics related to color and shape. The degree of morphological similarity varied from 0.13 to 0.83, and the degree of molecular similarity varied from 0.23 to 1.0, both obtained by the Jaccards coefficient. It is concluded that the materials from the Germplasm Bank of CIP-Peru and other countries (United States, Japan and Peru) are not genetically distinct from the materials from Brazil, or were not grouped separately. There is high variability among the studied materials, verified by the Jaccards similarity coefficient for both molecular and morphological data. Also, for both markers, morphological and molecular, most of the variation occurs within regions.

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variação genética. germplasm. ipomoea batatas marcador molecular morphological descriptors genetic variability germoplasma vegetal batata doce microsatellites

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