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Journal of Integrative Agriculture  2016, Vol. 15 Issue (10): 2299-2308    DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(16)61413-2
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Genetic diversity of Ustilago hordei in Tibetan areas as revealed by RAPD and SSR
ZHOU Yu1*, CHAO Gui-mei1*, LIU Jia-jia1, ZHU Ming-qi2, WANG Yang2, FENG Bai-li1
1 State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas/College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, P.R.China
2 State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas/College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, P.R.China
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Abstract      Covered smut, which is caused by Ustilago hordei (Pers.) Lagerh., is one of the most damaging diseases of highland barley (Hordeum vulgare Linn. var. nudum Hook. f) in Tibetan areas of China. To understand the molecular diversity of U. hordei, a total of 27 isolates, which were collected from highland barley plants from Tibet, Sichuan, Qinghai, and Gansu provinces/autonomous region, were analyzed using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. Among the 100 RAPD primers used, 24 primers exhibited polymorphism. A total of 111 fragments were amplified, of which 103 were polymorphic with a polymorphic rate of 92.79%. The average observed number of alleles (Na), effective number of alleles (Ne), Nei’s genetic diversity (H), Shannon’s information index (I) and polymorphism information content (PIC) value in the RAPD markers were 1.9279, 1.5016, 0.2974, 0.4503 and 0.6428, respectively. For the SSR markers, 40 of the 111 primer pairs exhibited polymorphism and provided a total of 119 bands, of which 109 were polymorphic and accounted for 91.60% of the total bands. The Na, Ne, H, I and PIC values of the SSR markers were 1.9160, 1.4639, 0.2757, 0.4211 and 0.4340, respectively. The similarity coefficients ranged from 0.4957 to 0.9261 with an average of 0.7028 among all the 27 isolates used. The dendrogram, which was developed based on the RAPD and SSR combined marker dataset showed that the 27 U. hordei isolates were divided into 3 clusters at similarity coefficient of 0.7314. We determined that RAPD and SSR markers can be successfully used to assess the genetic variation among U. hordei isolates. The RAPD markers revealed higher levels of genetic polymorphism than did the SSR markers in this study. There existed a moderate genetic difference among isolates. The molecular variation and differentiation was somewhat associated with geographical origin but not for all of the isolates.
Keywords:  highland barley        Ustilago hordei        RAPD        SSR        genetic diversity  
Received: 18 December 2015   Accepted:
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The study was sponsored by the National Millet Crops Research and Development System, China (CARS-07-12.5-A9), the National Key Technology R&D Program of China, (2014BAD07B03) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31371529).

Corresponding Authors:  FENG Bai-li, Tel/Fax: +86-29-87082899, E-mail: fengbaili@nwsuaf.edu.cn   
About author:  ZHOU Yu, E-mail: yuzhou@nwsuaf.edu.cn; CHAO Gui-mei, E-mail: cgm880806@163.com;

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