Preserving Biodiversity in Marginal Rural Areas: Assessment of Morphological and Genetic Variability of a Sicilian Common Bean Germplasm Collection
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results
2.1. Morphological Diversity
2.2. Genetic Diversity
3. Discussion and Conclusions
4. Materials and Methods
4.1. Plant Material
4.2. Morpho-Phenotypic Seed Analysis
4.3. DNA Isolation and Amplification
4.4. Data Analyses
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Locus | Na | Range Size (bp) | Ho | He | PIC | PI | Hom | PD |
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PVag001 | 6 | 137–155 | 0.333 | 0.524 | 0.463 | 0.288 | 66.7 | 0.7120 |
GATS91 | 11 | 214–256 | 0.035 | 0.733 | 0.709 | 0.0916 | 96.5 | 0.9084 |
BM210 | 9 | 167–195 | 0.0350 | 0.746 | 0.713 | 0.0972 | 98.2 | 0.9028 |
BM160 | 12 | 180–256 | 0.019 | 0.867 | 0.853 | 0.0318 | 98.2 | 0.9682 |
BM159 | 5 | 187–199 | 0.123 | 0.656 | 0.593 | 0.181 | 91.2 | 0.8189 |
PVBR25 | 13 | 149–177 | 0.182 | 0.802 | 0.785 | 0.0564 | 82.5 | 0.9436 |
BM172 | 9 | 70–112 | 0.089 | 0.636 | 0.590 | 0.1687 | 94.7 | 0.8313 |
PVBR163 | 10 | 221–259 | 0.439 | 0.646 | 0.607 | 0.1606 | 56.1 | 0.8394 |
Overall | 9.375 a | - | 0.157 a | 0.701 a | 0.664 a | 2 × 10−8 b | 85.5 a | 0.8656 a |
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Fiore, M.C.; Raimondo, F.M.; Mercati, F.; Digangi, I.; Sunseri, F.; Scialabba, A. Preserving Biodiversity in Marginal Rural Areas: Assessment of Morphological and Genetic Variability of a Sicilian Common Bean Germplasm Collection. Plants 2020, 9, 989. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9080989
Fiore MC, Raimondo FM, Mercati F, Digangi I, Sunseri F, Scialabba A. Preserving Biodiversity in Marginal Rural Areas: Assessment of Morphological and Genetic Variability of a Sicilian Common Bean Germplasm Collection. Plants. 2020; 9(8):989. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9080989
Chicago/Turabian StyleFiore, Maria Carola, Francesco Maria Raimondo, Francesco Mercati, Ignazio Digangi, Francesco Sunseri, and Anna Scialabba. 2020. "Preserving Biodiversity in Marginal Rural Areas: Assessment of Morphological and Genetic Variability of a Sicilian Common Bean Germplasm Collection" Plants 9, no. 8: 989. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9080989