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Comparison of Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms in Chloroplast DNA of Five Leafy Spurge (Euphorbia spp.) Accessions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Scott J. Nissen ,
Robert A. Masters ,
Donald J. Lee  and
Martha L. Rowe
Scott J. Nissen
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Univ. Nebraska; Range Sci., U.S. Dep. Agric., Agric. Res. Serv.
Robert A. Masters
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Univ. Nebraska; Range Sci., U.S. Dep. Agric., Agric. Res. Serv.
Donald J. Lee
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583
Martha L. Rowe
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583
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Abstract

Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) were analyzed to assess genetic variation and relatedness among selections of North American and Eurasian leafy spurge. Leafy spurge accessions from Nebraska, Montana, Russia, Italy, and Austria were evaluated. Total DNA was extracted from young leaves and digested with the restriction endonuclease, EcoRI. CpDNA fragment patterns were determined by Southern blot analysis using mung bean cpDNA probes. Colinearity between the mung bean and leafy spurge chloroplast genomes was indicated by the observation that common fragments were hybridized by adjacent probes. Minimum estimates of chloroplast genome size for the five leafy spurge accessions, which ranged in kilobase size from 130 to 132, were within the size range of most terrestrial plants. Structural collinearity and reasonable estimates of chloroplast genome size provided evidence that the mung bean cpDNA library was suitable for characterizing leafy spurge cpDNA. Seven of the 13 mung bean probes hybridized to polymorphic leafy spurge cpDNA fragments. Based on number of polymorphisms unique to each Eurasian accession, the Austrian accession appeared to be most divergent followed by the Italian and Russian. The North American accessions seem to be most closely related to each other and to the Russian leafy spurge accession.

Keywords

Leafy spurge, Euphorbia esula (L.) # EPHESmung bean, Vigna radiata L.Chloroplast restriction fragment length polymorphismgenetic diversitygenetic relatednessEPHES
Type
Weed Biology and Ecology
Information
Weed Science , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , March 1992 , pp. 63 - 67
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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