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Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is a traditional crop in tropical and subtropical regions that is used for human consumption and in animal feed. This studied cassava landraces cultivated in northern Mato Grosso State, Brazil, to detect the variability in family farms, aiming at the preservation and use potential of these genetic resources. A total of 120 M ... more
Transfer of microsatellite markers from other Arecaceae species to Syagrus romanzoffiana (Arecaceae)
The species Syagrus romanzoffiana, a native palm tree of South America, is widely distributed and well adapted to southern Brazil. It is an important economic, cultural, and ecological resource, being the preferred food of diverse animal species, involving complex ecological relationships. However, despite numerous molecular studies on native plants, ... more
Plant breeders need to understand the genetic diversity and relationships between genotypes to choose parents of segregating populations. We evaluated the genetic diversity of 35 soybean genotypes and determined their potential as parent lines in breeding programs by analyzing their agronomic traits and microsatellite markers. Phenotypic analysis was carried out in ... more
The aim of this study was to develop microsatellite markers for Ololygon centralis, an endemic tree frog species of the Cerrado biome of Brazil, to improve population genetics studies with focus on conservation and ecology. Sets of primers were designed from sequences derived from high throughput sequencing (Illumina-Miseq). Five polymorphic microsatellite ... more
The umbu tree (Spondias tuberosa) is endemic to the Brazilian semiarid region. This species is not cultivated and commercialized fruits are a result of extrativism; consequently little has been done to develop new and more productive cultivars. Hybrids of different accessions are a result of natural open pollination, so identifying putative male parents ... more
The umbu tree (Spondias tuberosa) is one of the best known plants of the Brazilian semi-arid region; it has great potential for the fruit market due to excellent consumer acceptance. This tree is not presently cultivated; fruit commercialization is based on extrativism. Consequently, there has been little research on the genetics of this species. Our ... more
BLAST is a genomic local alignment search tool used to identify homology between genotypes and possible orthologous genes. In vitro microsatellite transferability is a strategy to enable or increase species molecular fingerprinting, but it is dependent on PCR technique. An initial in silico step using BLAST for transferability can be helpful to ... more
Genetic diversity of wild soybean populations in Dongying, China, by simple sequence repeat analysis
Annual wild soybean (Glycine soja Sieb. et Zucc.), the ancestor of cultivated soybean (G. max), is believed to be a potential gene source for further improvement of soybean to cope with environmental stress. In this study, 10 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers were used to evaluate the genetic diversity and population genetic structure in five wild soybean populations using ... more
Nelumbo nucifera is an important economic vegetable and traditional medicine, but available genetic resources remain limited. Next generation sequencing has proven to be a rapid and effective means of identifying genic simple sequence repeat (genic-SSR) markers. This study developed genic-SSRs for N. nucifera using Illumina sequencing technology to assess diversity across ... more
Lack of requisite genetic variation in Turkish okra has necessitated the use of different types of markers for estimating the genetic diversity and identifying the source of variation. Transposable elements, present abundantly in plant genomes, generate genomic diversity through their replication and are thus an excellent source of molecular markers. We hypothesized that inter-primer binding ... more