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Genetic characterization of Pelargonium L’Hér. germplasm

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Fifteen species and eight cultivars of the section Pelargonium (DC.) Harv., two species of the section Ligularia (Sweet) Harv. and three species of the section Cortusina (DC.) Harv. were tested for genetic distance to predict successful combinations of interspecific crossings. 156 randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)-bands and 485 double primer RAPD-bands were used for distance analysis. Combined with information on the ploidy level, species were clustered in the expected sections except Pelargonium hirtum (Burm. f.) Jacq., which clustered with the species of the section Cortusina. Different accessions of the same wild species showed a high conformity (67–98 %) comparable to the cultivars (66–70 %).

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank Martina Fuß for the technical and Annette Benecke for the horticultural assistance. Moreover, we thank Kühne-Jungpflanzen, Claus Kühne GbR, Dresden and Günter Schumann, the director of the institute in Quedlinburg, for supporting this project.

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  1. Institute for Breeding Research on Horticultural Crops, Julius Kühn Institute – Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Erwin-Baur-Straße 27, 06484, Quedlinburg, Germany

    Sylvia Plaschil & Holger Budahn

  2. Kühne-Jungpflanzen, Claus Kühne GbR, Dresden, Germany

    Michael Wiedemann

  3. Department of Horticultural Plant Systems, Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Klaus Olbricht

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Plaschil, S., Budahn, H., Wiedemann, M. et al. Genetic characterization of Pelargonium L’Hér. germplasm. Genet Resour Crop Evol 64, 1051–1059 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-016-0424-x

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