Genetic diversity and differentiation of Chinese wild soybean germplasm (G. soja Sieb. & Zucc.) in geographical scale revealed by SSR markers |
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| Authors: | X H Li K J Wang J Z Jia |
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| Institution: | 1. College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094, China;2. The National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement (NFCRI), Institute of Crop Science, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing 100081, China;3. Corresponding author, E‐mail: wangkj@caas.net.cn |
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| Abstract: | Wild soybean (Glycine soja), as the progenitor of soybeans (G. max), is widely distributed in China and has been collected as a supplementary germplasm pool of soybeans. In this study, 375 wild soybean accessions from a set of genebank core collection were analysed for genetic diversity by using 42 simple sequence repeat primer pairs. The mean allele number per locus was 19.62. Ten‐percent unique alleles involving 35 or 83.33% loci differentiated among the geographical regions. The mean gene diversity (h) per locus was 0.89. A very low mean coefficient of gene differentiation (GST = 0.08) for geographical regions and a high mean within‐region gene diversity (HS = 0.81) were observed, indicating that most genetic diversity existed within the regions. There was an obvious relationship between genetic distance and geographical distance. The results showed multiple centers of genetic diversity for Chinese wild soybean in North China, the Huanghe River Valley, and Central China as well as the Changjiang River Valley, implicating multiple site origins of soybeans within China. |
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| Keywords: | genetic diversity genetic structure geographical differentiation Glycine soja simple sequence repeat molyporphism |
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