RETRACTED: MICROSATELLITE (SSR) MARKERS A TOOL; FOR GENETIC DIVERSITY ASSESSMENT AMONG SUGARCANE ACCESSIONS
SOHAIL AKHTER *
Vegetable Research Station Sahiwal, Pakistan.
SALSABEEL RAUF
Oilseeds Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
BELQEES AKHTER
Soil and Water Testing Lab, Lahore, Pakistan.
MARIA GHIAS
Oilseeds Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
NAJMA PARVEEN
Maize Research Station, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
IQRA IBRAR
Maize and Millets Research Institute Yousafwala, Sahiwal, Pakistan.
SAJJAD ALI GILL
Department of Sports Sciences and Physical Education, The University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
QURBAN ALI *
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Thirty SSR primer pairs chosen randomly from the sugarcane database SSR primer collection, were used to detect polymorphism in 17 sugarcane accessions. A total of 62 DNA fragments were generated by the 30 primers with an average of about 2.14 bands per primer. Bands yielded by the primer in this study ranged from 1 to 4. The genetic distances were constructed and relationships between accessions were demonstrated graphically using a dendrogram. Genetic similarity ranged from 62.90% to 90.30% and highest genetic similarity of 90.03% was observed among genotypes S-2003-US-118 and S-2003-US-312. From this study it may be concluded that SSRs markers are reliable tool for the investigation of genetic diversity in sugarcane.
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Keywords: SSR, polymorphism, genetic diversity