Identification of plantlet genetic origin in polyembryonic mango (Mangifera indica, L.) cv. Rosinha seeds using RAPD markers


Autoria(s): Cordeiro,Maria Cristina Rocha; Pinto,Alberto Carlos Queiróz; Ramos,Víctor Hugo Vargas; Faleiro,Fábio Gelape; Fraga,Lilia Marta Santos
Data(s)

01/12/2006

Resumo

Mango can be propagated by seeds or by grafting. For commercial purpose, grafting is the most appropriate method because it maintains the genetic characters from the propagated variety. To obtain grafted mango it is important to use polyembryonic varieties as rootstock since they produce a zygotic and many nucellar plantlets. The nucellar plantlets maintain the genetics of the mother-plant thus, are preferred for grafting since they supposedly give more uniformity to the orchard. In general, nurserymen use the most vigorous plantelet to graft, believing that they are nucellar. But, orchard disuniformities on height and yield are very common among mango trees of commercial orchards in Northeast region. The objective of this paper was to identify the genetical origin of plantlets from polyembryonic seeds of Rosinha variety using Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers. Moreover, the position of the zygotic embryo and the percentage of the vigorous zygotic and nucellar plantlets was also determined. It was obtained an elevated taxa of vigorous zygotic plantlets which possibly explains the disuniformity on height of trees at commercial mango orchards.

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Idioma(s)

en

Publicador

Sociedade Brasileira de Fruticultura

Fonte

Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura v.28 n.3 2006

Palavras-Chave #plantlet identification #embryo #rootstock #orchard uniformity
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journal article