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Amplified fragment length polymorphism for variety identification and genetic diversity assessment in oleander (Nerium oleander L.)

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Oleander is a Mediterranean evergreen shrub found along watercourses, gravelly places and damp slopes. It is grown widely as an ornamental for its abundant and long-lasting flowering as well as its moderate hardiness. Genetic relatedness among 71 accessions, including commercial varieties, different sources of the same varieties, and selections from the wild were investigated using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP). Nine primer combinations yielded a total of 603 bands of which 241 were polymorphic. Genetic similarities among accessions were calculated according to Jaccard's Similarity Index and used to construct a dendrogram based on the unweighted pair group method using arithmetic averages. Our results show that the AFLP technique, which can simultaneously and assay a large number of loci randomly distributed in the genome, is much more informative on the genetic relationship and origin of accessions than the limited number of morphological characters conventionally used for variety discrimination. Up to about 9% molecular genetic differentiation was detected among morphologically indistinguishable provenances of the same variety; this can be partly attributed to scoring error but mainly to somatic variation occurring during vegetative propagation. On the other hand lower genetic distance values were sometimes found among varieties which differ in morphological characters and are thus commercialised with different names. The possibility of considering the amount of genetic variation within a variety as the threshold value for discrimination of initial varieties and essentially derived varieties is discussed.

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    Ezio Portis, Cinzia Comino, Romano Tesi & Sergio Lanteri

  2. DISAT, University of Florence (Italy), Piazzale delle Cascine 18, 50144, Florence, Italy

    Anna Lenzi & Piero Lombardi

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Portis, E., Comino, C., Lenzi, A. et al. Amplified fragment length polymorphism for variety identification and genetic diversity assessment in oleander (Nerium oleander L.). Euphytica 136, 125–137 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:EUPH.0000030661.25909.57

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