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Ezzat Karami

  • Biodiversity Journal, 4 (1): 243-252

    Seyed Arman Hosseini, Ezzat Karami & Reza Talebi
    Molecular variation of Iranian local and exotic strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) varieties using SSR markers

    ABSTRACT
    In this study, we report the genetic diversity in a collection of 17 local strawberry cultivars collected from ‘Kurdistan’ province north-west of Iran with 13 exotic cultivars, using 20 SSR markers. The 20 SSR loci analysed produced 118 alleles with an average 5.9 alleles per marker. The number of alleles ranged from 3 to 16, whereas the maximum was observed in UAFv7648. The effective allelic number (ne) was 3.03 on average of and ranged from 1.22 to 6.98. The genetic diversity (GD) and PIC values ranged from 0.22 to 0.88 and 0.19 to 0.87, with an average of 0.63 and 0.60, respectively. Cluster analysis grouped genotypes in four clusters. Local cultivars grouped in two distinct clusters and other exotic cultivars grouped in other two clusters. Results of cluster analysis suggested that the local cultivars may originated from Queen, Missionary, Ventana and Fresho or may share a same pedigree sources with these cultivars. This is first information on commercially grown local and exotic strawberry cultivars from different origins in Iran using SSR markers.