Genetic variation among populations of wild safflower, <Emphasis Type="Italic">Carthamus oxyacanthus</Emphasis> analyzed by agro-morphological traits and ISSR markers |
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| Authors: | Mohammad R Sabzalian Aghafakhr Mirlohi Ghodratollah Saeidi Mohammad T Rabbani |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, 84156-83111 Isfahan, Iran; |
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| Abstract: | Wild species of safflower, Carthamus oxyacanthus Bieb., is highly crossable with cultivated species, C. tinctorius L. and could be directly exploited in broadening safflower gene pool and improving the crop for biotic and abiotic stress
environments. In this study, genetic diversity among accessions of C. oxyacanthus and their relationships with cultivated safflower were evaluated using agro-morphological traits and polymorphic inter-simple
sequence repeats (ISSR) markers. Significant variation was observed among accessions particularly for seeds per capitulum,
seed yield per plant, harvest index and capitula per plant. Cluster analysis based on agro-morphological traits classified
the wild accessions in two groups according to their geographical regions, and separated them from the cultivated genotypes.
ISSR marker also revealed a high genetic variation among the accessions, and cluster analysis based on this marker divided
genotypes into four groups, with cultivated ones in a separate clade. Genetic variation observed among the wild safflower
germplasm at the DNA level was higher than the agro-morphological traits, indicating that ISSR is an effective marker system
for detecting diversity among safflower genotypes and their genetic relationships. Accessions of C. oxyacanthus with high genetic relationship to cultivated species could be used for interspecific hybridization in breeding programs of
safflower. |
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