Abstract
A series of crosses designed for introgression of mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco) and pummelo (C. maxima Merr.) germplasm, to develop an alternative rootstock to sour orange (C. aurantium L.), were carried out. It is necessary to identify those hybrids that yield nucellar seedlings for rootstock propagation. Rootstocks can be developed through traditional plant breeding methods; however, the ability to screen and select for economically important traits (such as production of true nucellar seedlings) in an efficient fashion is limited by the difficulties of screening techniques based on whole plant performance. To address these problems, we have used randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and fluorescently labeled expressed sequence tag simple sequence repeat (EST-SSR) molecular markers. A total of 204 individual seedlings obtained from 34 hybrid parental plants were successfully characterized using five RAPD primers. Ten hybrid parents and their progenies, found to be genetically similar among themselves, were selected for more scrutiny using eight EST-SSR primer pairs. The degrees of genetic similarity (nucellars) among progeny seedlings were determined and compared with that of their parents. The mean genetic similarity varied from 67–99% among the selected rootstock candidates screened. The genetic similarity relationship identified using RAPD and EST-SSR molecular markers was highly concordant (p = 0.001). Two elite rootstock candidates (B6R5T56; B6R11T129) that seem to be ideal for future mandarin and pummelo derived rootstock breeding programs have been identified. Our results indicate that either RAPD or EST-SSR analyses could be equally successful in identifying true nucellars among the progenies obtained from introgression crosses of mandarin and pummelo, thus improving the accuracy of early selection in a citrus rootstock breeding program.
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The authors thank Ms. M. Wendell, Ms. M. Holt, and Ms. R. Clarke for their technical assistance. The Division of Plant Industry, Winter Haven, Florida is acknowledged for providing Swingle citrumelo and sour orange samples for the experiment. This research was supported in part under Project Number 0110-03 of the Florida Citrus Production Research Advisory Council, Peter McClure, Chairman.
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Nageswara Rao, M., Soneji, J.R., Chen, C. et al. Characterization of zygotic and nucellar seedlings from sour orange-like citrus rootstock candidates using RAPD and EST-SSR markers. Tree Genetics & Genomes 4, 113–124 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11295-007-0092-2
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