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Agro-morphological and molecular variability in Triticum boeoticum accessions from Zagros Mountains, Iran

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Genetic erosion in cultivated wheat provides a good reason for studying genetic diversity in crop wild relatives. In the present study, genetic diversity of 32 accessions belonging to T. boeoticum species collected from different parts of Iran were evaluated using 13 morphological traits as well as ten inter-simple sequence repeat primers. Statistical analysis for morphological traits showed significant differences among accessions (except number of fertile tillers and total tillers per plant). In principal component analysis, the first three PCA showed 82.65 % of the total morphological variation. Based on the morphological traits, accessions were separated into two main groups by cluster analysis. In molecular analysis, polymerase chain reactions amplified 105 DNA fragments, out of which, 95 (90.47 %) were polymorphic. From geographic perspective, the accessions sampled from western and southwestern of Iran showed the highest and lowest polymorphism, respectively. However, the maximum values of effective number of alleles (Ne), Nei’s gene diversity (He) and Shannon’s information index (I) was related to accessions collected from NW regions. Also, according to cluster analysis and PCoA plot genetic diversity was not related to geographical distribution. Overall, our results revealed a remarkable level of genetic diversity among studied Iranian T. boeoticum accessions; especially accessions collected from Kermanshah and Lorestan provinces, which can be of interest for future breeding programs. So, conservation of germplasm of these areas is recommended.

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  1. Department of Crop Production and Breeding, Imam Khomeini International University, 34148-96818, Qazvin, Iran

    Alireza Pour-Aboughadareh, Mostafa Mahmoudi & Jafar Ahmadi

  2. Department of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

    Mohammad Moghaddam & Seyed Siamak Alavikia

  3. Department of Agronomy and Plant breeding, University of Ilam, Ilam, Iran

    Ali Ashraf Mehrabi

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Pour-Aboughadareh, A., Mahmoudi, M., Moghaddam, M. et al. Agro-morphological and molecular variability in Triticum boeoticum accessions from Zagros Mountains, Iran. Genet Resour Crop Evol 64, 545–556 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-016-0381-4

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