Differentiation of Populus species by chloroplast SNP markers for barcoding and breeding approaches

About 30 species within the genus Populus are classified in six sections. Several species belonging to different sections are cross-compatible, resulting in a high number of naturally occurring interspecies hybrids. Additionally, an even higher number of hybrids has been produced in huge breeding pr...

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Main Authors: Schroeder H, Fladung M
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Language:English
Published: Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF) 2015-08-01
Series:iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry
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Online Access:https://iforest.sisef.org/contents/?id=ifor1326-007
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description About 30 species within the genus Populus are classified in six sections. Several species belonging to different sections are cross-compatible, resulting in a high number of naturally occurring interspecies hybrids. Additionally, an even higher number of hybrids has been produced in huge breeding programs during the last 100 years. Hence, determination of poplar species used for production of “multi-species-hybrids” is often difficult and, therefore, a challenge in developing molecular markers for species identification. Fourteen out of the 30 poplar species known are used more or less regularly for production of artificial hybrids and clones. In this study, we focused on over 20 chloroplast regions, and we tested 23 primer combinations already established for “Barcoding” approaches and seventeen new primer combinations designed earlier for the applicability to differentiate fourteen poplar species. In contrast to the self-designed primer combinations with a much higher amplification success, only about half of the established barcoding primer combinations yielded amplification products. In total, for eleven of the fourteen used poplar species we found species-specific SNPs or Indels. Most of the variation was found in intergenic spacers. In order to design an inexpensive and fast method of species identification, we developed PCR-RFLPs applicable for seven of the species-specific SNPs. Altogether there is high variation in chloroplast intergenic spacers within the genus Populus, illustrated by the fact that four primer combinations are needed to differentiate eleven species. Thus, we support the suggestion of using multi-locus combinations in barcoding analyses.
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spelling doaj.art-923778c13b584cb582949f238b61715c2022-12-22T01:06:04ZengItalian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF)iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry1971-74581971-74582015-08-018154454610.3832/ifor1326-0071326Differentiation of Populus species by chloroplast SNP markers for barcoding and breeding approachesSchroeder H0Fladung M1Thünen Institute of Forest Genetics, Sieker Landstrasse 2, D-22927 Grosshansdorf (Germany)Thünen Institute of Forest Genetics, Sieker Landstrasse 2, D-22927 Grosshansdorf (Germany)About 30 species within the genus Populus are classified in six sections. Several species belonging to different sections are cross-compatible, resulting in a high number of naturally occurring interspecies hybrids. Additionally, an even higher number of hybrids has been produced in huge breeding programs during the last 100 years. Hence, determination of poplar species used for production of “multi-species-hybrids” is often difficult and, therefore, a challenge in developing molecular markers for species identification. Fourteen out of the 30 poplar species known are used more or less regularly for production of artificial hybrids and clones. In this study, we focused on over 20 chloroplast regions, and we tested 23 primer combinations already established for “Barcoding” approaches and seventeen new primer combinations designed earlier for the applicability to differentiate fourteen poplar species. In contrast to the self-designed primer combinations with a much higher amplification success, only about half of the established barcoding primer combinations yielded amplification products. In total, for eleven of the fourteen used poplar species we found species-specific SNPs or Indels. Most of the variation was found in intergenic spacers. In order to design an inexpensive and fast method of species identification, we developed PCR-RFLPs applicable for seven of the species-specific SNPs. Altogether there is high variation in chloroplast intergenic spacers within the genus Populus, illustrated by the fact that four primer combinations are needed to differentiate eleven species. Thus, we support the suggestion of using multi-locus combinations in barcoding analyses.https://iforest.sisef.org/contents/?id=ifor1326-007Chloroplast GenomeSNPsIndelBarcodingIntergenic Spacer
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Differentiation of Populus species by chloroplast SNP markers for barcoding and breeding approaches
iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry
Chloroplast Genome
SNPs
Indel
Barcoding
Intergenic Spacer
title Differentiation of Populus species by chloroplast SNP markers for barcoding and breeding approaches
title_full Differentiation of Populus species by chloroplast SNP markers for barcoding and breeding approaches
title_fullStr Differentiation of Populus species by chloroplast SNP markers for barcoding and breeding approaches
title_full_unstemmed Differentiation of Populus species by chloroplast SNP markers for barcoding and breeding approaches
title_short Differentiation of Populus species by chloroplast SNP markers for barcoding and breeding approaches
title_sort differentiation of populus species by chloroplast snp markers for barcoding and breeding approaches
topic Chloroplast Genome
SNPs
Indel
Barcoding
Intergenic Spacer
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