Genome-Wide Development of Polymorphic Microsatellite Markers and Genetic Diversity Analysis for the Halophyte <i>Suaeda aralocaspica</i> (Amaranthaceae)
2023
Wei Xu | Jiancheng Wang | Changyan Tian | Wei Shi | Lei Wang
<i>Suaeda aralocaspica</i>, which is an annual halophyte, grows in saline deserts in Central Asia with potential use in saline soil reclamation and salt tolerance breeding. Studying its genetic diversity is critical for effective conservation and breeding programs. In this study, we aimed to develop a set of polymorphic microsatellite markers to analyze the genetic diversity of <i>S. aralocaspica</i>. We identified 177,805 SSRs from the <i>S. aralocaspica</i> genome, with an average length of 19.49 bp, which were present at a density of 393.37 SSR/Mb. Trinucleotide repeats dominated (75.74%) different types of motifs, and the main motif was CAA/TTG (44.25%). We successfully developed 38 SSR markers that exhibited substantial polymorphism, displaying an average of 6.18 alleles with accompanying average polymorphism information content (PIC) value of 0.516. The markers were used to evaluate the genetic diversity of 52 individuals collected from three populations of <i>S. aralocaspica</i> in Xinjiang, China. The results showed that the genetic diversity was moderate to high, with a mean expected heterozygosity (He) of 0.614, a mean Shannon’s information index (I) of 1.23, and a mean genetic differentiation index (Fst) of 0.263. The SSR markers developed in this study provide a valuable resource for future genetic studies and breeding programs of <i>S. aralocaspica</i>, and even other species in <i>Suaeda</i>.
Show more [+] Less [-]AGROVOC Keywords
Bibliographic information
This bibliographic record has been provided by Directory of Open Access Journals