In commercial terms, Criollo cacao trees (Theobroma cacao L.) are reputed to be the source of the commercial product (fermented and dried cocoa beans), which sells for the best price on the market. Nevertheless, the term “Criollo” has numerous meanings and interpretations depending on if it is used by commercial users or botanists, growers or breeders. Our review aims to specify which cocoas can justifiably carry the Criollo name. “Criollo” is a botanical subspecies of Theobroma cacao, i.e. Theobroma cacao subsp. cacao; however, the true Criollos form just one of the ten currently accepted genetic groups in the species. We thus provide an overview of genetic studies on the subject (published or not), along with what is currently known about “True Criollo” or “Ancient Criollo” cacao trees. In fact, there are few representatives in collections that are duly acknowledged to be true Criollos, particularly in the two International Cocoa Genebanks, where only seven clones are available. It is nonetheless certain that some true Criollos do exist in other collections but have not been formally identified (by genetic studies) as members of the Criollo genetic group. Likewise, some true Criollos, be they cultivated or subspontaneous, exist in Mexico and Central and South America (Venezuela and Colombia). However, certain clones called “modern Criollos”, which are closely related to the true Criollos but arise from hybridization with other genetic groups, are more common. 相似文献
Genetic diversity of populations stored ex situ or in situ can be altered due to the management practices they are subjected
to. In this paper, we compare populations of two common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) landraces grown on farms with material
collected from the same farms and now kept in two ex situ collections (CIAT and REGEN) with the purpose to monitor any changes
that have occurred due to ex situ conservation. The diversity was measured using seven bean microsatellite markers. Further
phenotypic and developmental traits were registered in a field experiment. Compared with the in situ populations, the ex situ
ones had a lower level of gene diversity and we suggest that this is due to the regeneration process. Most of the phenotypic
traits did not differ significantly between ex situ and in situ populations, although for yield and 100-seed weight, the CIAT
material showed significant lower values. We assume that these populations have gone through an adaptational change. Overall,
the conservation ex situ has been successful in maintaining the majority of the adaptations found in the landraces studied,
however, the probable loss of genetic diversity that we have observed, suggest that protocols for the regeneration process
must be carefully worked out if the majority of alleles are to be preserved for the future. This study also highlights the
complementarity of ex situ and in situ conservation methods in order to preserve landrace adaptations and to capture new,
useful diversity generated in in situ populations. 相似文献
Neglected and underutilized species often play a vital role in securing food and livestock feed, income generation and energy
needs of rural populations. In spite of their great potential little attention has been given to these species. This increases
the possibility of genetic erosion which would further restrict the survival strategies of people in rural areas. Ziziphus spina-christi is a plant species that has edible fruits and a number of other beneficial applications that include the use of leaves as
fodder, branches for fencing, wood as fuel, for construction and furniture making, and the utilization of different parts
e.g. Fruits, leaves, roots and bark in folk medicine. Moreover, the plant is adapted to dry and hot climates which make it
suitable for cultivation in an environment characterized by increasing degradation of land and water resources. Lack of research
in Z. spina-christi hinders its successful improvement and promotion. Therefore, studies are needed to fully exploit this species. This article
aims at summarizing information on different aspects of Z. spina-christi to stimulate interest in this crop which is of importance in Sudan and other countries of the semi-arid tropics.
Reliable characterization of the variation among wild and cultivated yams in Nigeria is essential for improved management
and efficient utilization of yam genetic resources. RAPD and double stringency PCR (DS-PCR) analyses were used to investigate
genetic relationships and the extent of redundancy among 30 accessions of two cultivated, and 35 accessions of four wild yam
species collected from Nigeria. Twenty-five selected random decamer and two microsatellite primers were used individually
and in combination to generate DNA profiles for each accession of the six Dioscorea species. The number of amplified fragments varied from 7 to 18 fragments per primer/primer combination. Different levels
of intraspecific genetic diversity were found, with Dioscorea rotundata Poir. being the most variable. Based on identical profiles for the RAPD and DS-PCR primers, 12 duplication groups consisting
of a total number of 37 accessions were observed in the present study. An UPGMA analysis grouped the majority of plants according
to the species. Cultivated yams belonging to the D. cayenensis–rotundata species complex, which were classified into seven morphotypes/varietal groups, could be clearly separated into two major
groups corresponding to D. rotundata Poir. and D. cayenensis Lam. D. cayenensis cultivars exhibited a low level of intraspecific variation and were genetically close to the wild species Dioscorea burkilliana J. Miège. D. rotundata cultivars classified into six varietal groups showed a high degree of DNA polymorphism and were separated into two major
groups that appeared most closely related to Dioscorea praehensilis Benth. and Dioscorea liebrechtsiana de Wild. We propose, based on these results, that cultivars classified into D. cayenensis should be considered as a taxon separate from D. rotundata. The implications of intraspecific variability for the ex situ conservation of wild and cultivated yam germplasm in Nigeria are discussed. 相似文献
Few studies have been conducted to evaluate the effects of mixtures of chemicals in terrestrial environment. Thus, it seems
important to evaluate if the combined application of pesticides currently used in agricultural fields may pose a risk to terrestrial
plants. 相似文献
Calamintha nepeta and Micromeria thymifolia have been traditionally used in the Mediterranean area as condiments and medicinal plants for a long time. Whereas in parts of Italy C. nepeta (special recipes have been developed in Lazio and Tuscany) is also an established garden plant showing different evolutionary products and their interaction among each other and the wild progenitor, M. thymifolia is being developed into a new crop plant. Both plants and their uses are described with regard to Italy. There is a marked tendency to broaden the use of condiments and spices which results in new crop plants which have to be documented and elaborated in further studies. Many species of Labiatae are predisposed to use by man and new items can be found even in areas which have to be considered as well studied. 相似文献
Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) is an important economic crop in the Bolivian Amazon. Bolivian farmers both cultivate cacao, and extract fruits from
wild stands in the Beni River region and in valleys of the Andes foothills. The germplasm group traditionally used is presently
referred to as “Cacao Nacional Boliviano” (CNB). Using DNA fingerprinting technology based on microsatellite markers, we genotyped
164 Bolivian cacao accessions, including both cultivated and wild CNB accessions sampled from the Amazonian regions of La
Paz and Beni, and compared their SSR profiles with 78 reference Forastero accessions from Amazonian cacao populations, including
germplasm from the Ucayali region of Peru. Results of multivariate ordination and analysis of molecular variance show that
CNB cacao has a unique genetic profile that is significantly different from the known cacao germplasm groups in South America.
The results also show that cultivated CNB and wild CNB populations in the Beni River share a similar genetic profile, suggesting
that the cultivated CNB is of indigenous origin in Bolivia. The level of genetic diversity, measured by allele richness and
gene diversity in the Bolivian cacao, is moderately high, but was significantly lower than gene diversity in the other Amazonian
cacao populations. Significant spatial genetic structure was detected in the wild CNB population, using analysis of autocorrelation
(rc = 0.232; P < 0.001) and Mantel tests (Rxy = 0.276; P < 0.001). This finding is also highly valuable to support in situ conservation and sustainable use of CNB genetic diversity in Bolivia. 相似文献
This study aimed to investigate the effect of inoculation with plant growth-promoting Rhizobium and Pseudomonas species on NaCl-affected maize. Two cultivars of maize (cv. Agaiti 2002 and cv. Av 4001) selected on the basis of their yield
potential were grown in pots outdoors under natural conditions during July. Microorganisms were applied at seedling stage
and salt stress was induced 21 days after sowing and maintained up to 50% flowering after 120 days of stress. The salt treatment
caused a detrimental effect on growth and development of plants. Co-inoculation resulted in some positive adaptative responses
of maize plants under salinity. The salt tolerance from inoculation was generally mediated by decreases in electrolyte leakage
and in osmotic potential, an increase in osmoregulant (proline) production, maintenance of relative water content of leaves,
and selective uptake of K ions. Generally, the microbial strain acted synergistically. However, under unstressed conditions,
Rhizobium was more effective than Pseudomonas but under salt stress the favorable effect was observed even if some exceptions were also observed. The maize cv. Agaiti
2002 appeared to be more responsive to inoculation and was relatively less tolerant to salt compared to that of cv. Av 4001. 相似文献
The diversity among 269 rhizobia isolated from naturally occurring root nodules of soybean collected from two different agro-ecological
regions of India, based on RFLP and sequences of the intergenic spacer (IGS) between the 16S and 23S rRNA genes, growth rate,
and indole acetic acid production, revealed their significant, site-dependent genomic diversity. Among these bacteria, nine
IGS genotypes were identified with two endonucleases. They were distributed into five divergent lineages by sequence analysis
of each IGS representative strain, i.e., (1) comprising IGS genotypes I, II, III, and reference Bradyrhizobium yuanmingense; (2) with genotype IV and strains of unclassified bradyrhizobia genomic species; (3) including genotypes V, VI, and Bradyrhizobium liaoningense; (4) with IGS genotype VII and Bradyrhizobium elkanii strains; and (5) comprising IGS genotypes VIII, IX, and different Ensifer genus bacteria. Host-specificity test revealed that all rhizobia-nodulated soybean and cowpea and only part of them formed
nodules on Arachis hypogeae and Cajanus cajan. The great diversity of soybean nodulators observed in this study emphasises that Indian soil is an important reservoir of
nitrogen-fixing rhizobia. 相似文献
V. rhomboidea is a wild Vigna species that is a potential source of genes for pubescence which could be incorporated into
cultivated cowpea for insect pests resistance. Due to the lack of reliable records on the crossability and gene pool relationships
between V. rhomboidea and cowpea, crossing trials were conducted in the screenhouse to observe if V. rhomboidea is reciprocally
crossable (compatible) with cowpea. Crossability of V. rhomboidea (as seed parent) with cowpea (as pollen parent) was, for
the first time, successfully achieved at the rate of 5.7% from 1145 crosses. Reciprocal crosses with cowpea as seed parent
and V. rhomboidea pollen parent gave an average of 22.6% pod set from 2299 crosses. It is concluded that V. rhomboidea is
reciprocally compatible with cowpea. This implies that V. rhomboidea belongs to the primary gene pool of cowpea. 相似文献
This study reports for the first time the presence of diazotrophic bacteria belonging to the genera Achromobacter and Zoogloea associated with wheat plants. These bacterial strains were identified by the analysis of 16S rDNA sequences. The bacterium
IAC-AT-8 was identified as Azospirillum brasiliense, whereas isolates IAC-HT-11 and IAC-HT-12 were identified as Achromobacter insolitus and Zoogloea ramigera, respectively. A greenhouse experiment involving a non-sterilized soil was carried out with the aim to study the endophytic
feature of these strains. After 40 days from inoculation, all the strains were in the inner of roots, but they were not detected
in soil. In order to assess the location inside wheat plants, an experiment was conducted under axenic conditions. Fifteen
days after inoculation, preparations of inoculated plants were observed by the scanning electron microscope, using the cryofracture
technique, and by the transmission electron microscope. It was observed that all isolates were present on the external part
of the roots and in the inner part at the elongation region, in cortex cells, but not in the endodermis or in the vascular
bundle region. No colonizing bacterial cells were observed in wheat leaves. 相似文献
Trigeneric hybrids may help establish evolutionary relationships among different genomes present in the same cellular-genetic
background, and also offers the possibility to transfer different alien characters into cultivated wheat. In this study, a
new trigeneric hybrid involving species from the Triticum, Psathyrostachys and Secale was synthesized by crossing wheat-P. huashanica amphiploid (PHW-SA) with wheat-S. cereale amphiploid (Zhongsi 828). The crossability of F1 hybrid was high with 35.13%, and the fertility was 41.95%. The morphological characteristics of F1 plants resembled the parent Zhongsi 828. The trigeneric hybrids pollen mother cells (PMCs) regularly revealed averagely 19.88
univalents, 9.63 ring bivalents, 3.97 rod bivalents, 0.60 trivalents and 0.03 tetravalents per cell. Multivalents consisted
of trivalents and tetravalents can be observed in 52.7% of cells. A variation of abnormal lagging chromosome, micronuclei
and chromosome bridge were formed at anaphase I and telophase II. The mean chromosomes number of F2 progenies was 2n = 46.13, and the distribution range was 42–53. GISH results revealed that most F2 plants had 6–12 S. cereale chromosomes, and only 0–2 P. huashanica chromosomes were detected. The results indicated that S. cereale chromosomes can be preferentially transmitted in the F2 progenies of trigeneric hybrid than P. huashanica chromosomes. A survey of disease resistances revealed that the stripe rust resistance from the PHW-SA were completely expressed
in the F1 and some F2 plants. The trigeneric hybrid could be a useful bridge for the transference of P. huashanica and S. cereale chromatins to common wheat. 相似文献
Paracetamol, the most widely and globally used analgesic and antipyretic, is easily accumulated in aquatic environments. In the present study, the biodegradation of paracetamol in different media (one for general growth, one specific for sulfate reducing bacteria, a mineral salts medium and municipal wastewater) inoculated with two types of sludge (from anaerobic lagoon and from oxidation ditch) under different oxygenic conditions (anoxic; moderate oxygenation in open flasks and high oxygenation by aeration) was investigated. In addition, bacteria with relative abundances increasing simultaneously with paracetamol degradation, when this drug was the only carbon source, thus with a putative role in its degradation, were identified using 16S rRNA gene sequences. The results show that aerobic microorganisms had a major role in the degradation of paracetamol, with 50 mg/L totally removed from municipal wastewater after 2 days incubation with aeration, and that the metabolites 4-aminophenol and hydroquinone plus one compound not identified in this work were produced in the process. The identification of bacteria with a role in the degradation of paracetamol revealed a strain from genus Pseudomonas with the highest final relative abundance of 21.2%, confirming previous works reporting strains of this genus as paracetamol decomposers. Besides, genera Flavobacterium, Dokdonella and Methylophilus were also in evidence, with initial relative abundances of 1.66%, 1.48 and 0.00% (not detected) in the inoculum and 6.91%, 3.80 and 3.83% after incubation, respectively. Therefore, a putative role of these genera in paracetamol biodegradation is suggested for the first time.
The present study was conducted to isolate and characterize rhizobial strains from root nodules of cultivated legumes, i.e. chickpea, mungbean, pea and siratro. Preliminary characterization of these isolates was done on the basis of plant infectivity test, acetylene reduction assay, C-source utilization, phosphate solubilization, phytohormones and polysaccharide production. The plant infectivity test and acetylene reduction assay showed effective root nodule formation by all the isolates on their respective hosts, except for chickpea isolate Ca-18 that failed to infect its original host. All strains showed homology to a typical Rhizobium strain on the basis of growth pattern, C-source utilization and polysaccharide production. The strain Ca-18 was characterized by its phosphate solubilization and indole acetic acid (IAA) production. The genetic relationship of the six rhizobial strains was carried out by random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) including a reference strain of Bradyrhizobium japonicum TAL-102. Analysis conducted with 60 primers discriminated between the strains of Rhizobium and Bradyrhizobium in two different clusters. One of the primers, OPB-5, yielded a unique RAPD pattern for the six strains and well discriminated the non-nodulating chickpea isolate Ca-18 from all the other nodulating rhizobial strains. Isolate Ca-18 showed the least homology of 15% and 18% with Rhizobium and Bradyrhizobium, respectively, and was probably not a (Brady)rhizobium strain. Partial 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis for MN-S, TAL-102 and Ca-18 strains showed 97% homology between MN-S and TAL-102 strains, supporting the view that they were strains of B. japonicum species. The non-infective isolate Ca-18 was 67% different from the other two strains and probably was an Agrobacterium strain. 相似文献
Maize (Zea mays L.) and Asian rice (Oryza sativa L.), two most important cereals for human nutrition, have undergone strong artificial selection during a long period of time. Currently, a number of genes with stronger signals of selection have been identified through combining genomic and population genetic approach, but research on artificial selection of maize and Asian rice is scarcely done from the perspective of phenotypic difference of a number of agronomic traits. In this study, such an investigation was carried out on the basis of 179 published studies about phenotypic quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping of Zea and Oryza species via QTL sign test. At the overall level, the proportions of antagonistic QTLs of Zea and Oryza species were 0.2446 and 0.2382 respectively, deviating significantly from neutrality. It indicated that these two genera have undergone similar selection strength during their evolutionary process. A previous study showed that 4 traits undergoing the directional selection during domestication were identified in Asian rice via QTL sign test, and 16 individual traits in Asian rice and 38 ones in maize that newly detected in this study deviated significantly from neutrality as well, demonstrating the dominant influence of artificial selection on them. Moreover, analysis of different categories of cross type including O. sativa × Oryza rufipogon (perennial and annual forms) crosses, maize × teosinte (Zea mays subsp. parviglumis) crosses, O. sativa × O. sativa crosses, and maize × maize crosses showed that their proportions of antagonistic QTLs were 0.1869, 0.1467, 0.2649, and 0.2618 respectively. These results revealed that selection strength of domestication is significantly stronger than that of modern genetic improvement. However, interestingly, the proportion of antagonistic QTLs (0.1591) in maize × maize with long-term selection was very similar to that (0.1467) in the maize × teosinte (Zea mays subsp. parviglumis) crosses. It suggested that some favorable traits could be cultivated within a few decades if we carry out strong selection. In addition, the proportions of antagonistic QTLs of the widely cultivated hybrids of rice (Minghui 63 × Zhenshan 97) and maize (Zheng 58 × Chang 7-2) in China were 0.309 and 0.3472 respectively. It suggested that selection during modern genetic improvement has significantly acted on them. 相似文献
The variation in 20 morphological and agronomical traits has been evaluated in a set of chickpea genetic resources from four
countries. Data indicated differences between accessions in leaf, flower, pod, and seed traits and characteristics, as well
as in vegetation period. Multivariate analyses of these data segregated chickpeas into groups. Polymorphism in seed glutelines
was absent, while variation in seed prolamines was very limited. DNA amplification patterns have been analyzed by semi-arbitrary
primers and by specific microsatellite primers. Only some of semi-arbitrary primers generated usable DNA banding patterns,
moreover interpretation of these patterns can be more or less difficult. On the contrary specific primers amplifying microsatellites
at the specific loci generated unambiguous and reproducible differences between chickpeas. 相似文献
The aim of this study was to identify the group of highly polymorphic microsatellite markers for the identification of six
pear cultivars (P.communis) and two individuals of wild pear (P. pyraster). From among 40 tested SSR markers, 19 were selected to profile genetic diversity in pear genotypes due to high polymorphisms.
These markers showed high heterozygosity levels (0.5–1) and, on average, 6.4 alleles per marker were found. The set of microsatellite
markers employed in this study demonstrated usefulness of microsatellite markers for the identification of pear genotypes.
The examined wild forms were represented in this study by only two individuals of P. pyraster. It can be assumed that these forms were distinctly different from the cultivated pear cultivars. 相似文献