Determination of s-alleles in Iranian sour cherry (Prunus cerasus) using consensus primers

Department of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Iran (1)
Department of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Iran (2)
Agriculture Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII), Karaj, Iran (3)
Horticultural Departments of Seed and Plant Improvement Institute (SPII), Karaj, Iran (4)

Corresponding author: Saliyoun66@gmail.com
Abstract:

Sour cherry is a tetraploid species, and gametophytic self-incompatibility (SI) operates in this species in the same way as in other stone fruit trees. However, while self-compatibility is most common in sour cherry and self-compatibility (SC) genotypes are rarely found, both SI and self-compatible (SC) types are selected in sour cherry. In this work, S-alleles have been identified for 70 sour cherry accessions and cultivars from the Shabestar regions of Iran, with S-genotypes of 68 cultivars identified for the first time. To identify the S-alleles, PCR-based methods were used. The amplification of the different alleles using combinations of the four forward primers (PaConsI-F, PruC2, PaConsII-F, EM-PC2consFD) and the five reverse primers (PruC4R, PCE-R, PaConsI-Rnew, PaConsII-R, EM-PC5consRD) revealed that they were the most useful for the identification of the sour cherry alleles. Nine known S-haplotypes (S6, S4, S9, S6m, S6m2, S24, S26, S35, S36a) were identified. In our study, alleles S6, S9, and S6m2 had a high frequency. It was shown that the consensus primers can be used to detect incompatibility alleles in sour cherry accessions. Our study has proved that the diversity of S alleles between the studied accessions was low, indicating low genetic diversity, which could also be due to the selection of superior genotypes by farmers.

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