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Determination of Self- and Inter-(in)compatibility Relationships in Apricot Combining Hand-Pollination, Microscopy and Genetic Analyses
Published on: June 16, 2020
Salwa Zehdi1, Mokhtar Trifi, Norbert Billotte
1Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Immunologie & Biotechnologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Campus Universitaire, El Manar I, Tunis, Tunisia.
Abstract:
Fourteen microsatellite loci of Phoenix dactylifera were targeted to examine the genetic diversity in Tunisian date-palms germplasm. They showed a high level of polymorphism in 49 accessions from three main oases with little geographic structure within Tunisia. The microsatellite data agrees with previous analyses of Tunisian germplasm using other molecular markers. 100% of local date-palms accessions were successfully fingerprinted and easily distinguished by the help of only three loci. The possibility of using microsatellites for large scale molecular labelling of offshoots and in vitro plantlets and their implication in the plant material certification is discussed.
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