Abstract
Seed protein profiles of 40 cultivated and wild taxa of Chenopodium have been compared by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The relative similarity between various taxa, estimated by Jaccard’s similarity index and clustered in UPGMA dendrogram, is generally in accordance with taxonomic position, crossability relationships and other biochemical characters. Eight accessions of C. quinoa studied are clustered together and show genetic similarity with closely related C. bushianum and C. berlandieri subsp. nuttalliae. The taxa included under C. album complex are clustered in two groups which show that these taxa are a heterogenous assemblage and their taxonomic affinities need a reassessment. Other wild species studied are placed in the dendrogram more or less according to their taxonomic position.
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Abbreviations
- NTSYS-PC:
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numerical taxonomy and multivariate analysis system
- OTU:
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operational taxonomic unit
- PAGE:
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polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
- SDS:
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sodiumdodecyl sulphate
- UPGMA:
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unweighted pair-group method
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Bhargava, A., Rana, T.S., Shukla, S. et al. Seed protein electrophoresis of some cultivated and wild species of Chenopodium . Biol Plant 49, 505–511 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10535-005-0042-5
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