Increasing Accuracy and Throughput in Large-Scale Microsatellite Fingerprinting of Cacao Field Germplasm Collections

Autor: Pathmanathan Umaharan, Dapeng Zhang, Michel Boccara, Stephen Pinney, Lambert A. Motilal, Sue Mischke
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Tropical Plant Biology
ISSN: 1935-9764
1935-9756
DOI: 10.1007/s12042-008-9016-z
Popis: In this study we report on increasing the rate and accuracy of microsatellite fingerprinting of accessions in Theobroma cacao L. field germplasm collections with a medium-throughput capillary sequencing system. We examined the use of a reduced number of microsatellite loci to decrease the time and materials required for fingerprinting and determined the best available microsatellite loci for accurately separating accessions. A subset of nine informative loci that could separate sixty accessions into the same genetic groupings as a complete set of 37 loci was found. Stringent probability of identity values (i.e. chance of unique accession) was highly influenced (r = −0.996; P
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