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Cytoplasmic diversity in Brassica rapa L. investigated by mitochondrial markers

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Brassica rapa L. is an important vegetable and oilseed crop. Cytoplasmic diversity of 36 B. rapa accessions was analyzed using the mitochondria-specific markers. Twelve representative materials including five additional Brassica species and one Eruca sativa Mill. were used as references. A modified multiplex PCR amplification using four pairs of primers was performed to test the mitochondrial types (mitotypes) of the tested materials. Ten accessions were detected with Cam-I mitotype which could amplify 500 and 800 bp bands, twenty-two accessions with Cam-II mitotype which could amplify 500, 800 and 906 bp bands, one accession with Pol mitotype. Interestingly, three B. rapa accessions were revealed with nap mitotype, two of them were local landraces in northern Shaanxi, the third one was a variety from Gansu province which was developed using one local landrace from Northern Shaanxi as female parent. The considerable cytoplasmic diversity in B. rapa provides useful information on studying the possible origin and evolution of B. rapa accessions, and conservation of the germplasm.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Profs Xiaoming Wu from Oil Crops Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Wuhan, Hubei) and Haohan Wang from Zhangye Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Zhangye, Gansu) for kindly providing some B. rapa accessions. This work was supported by the earmarked fund for China Agriculture Research System (CARS-13) and a grant from Northwest A&F University for S.W. Hu.

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    Rui-Jie Zhang, Sheng-Wu Hu & Jin-Qiang Yan

  2. Department of Biology, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, B3H 3C3, Canada

    Gen-Lou Sun

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Zhang, RJ., Hu, SW., Yan, JQ. et al. Cytoplasmic diversity in Brassica rapa L. investigated by mitochondrial markers. Genet Resour Crop Evol 60, 967–974 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-012-9892-9

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