Chapter title |
Early Sex Identification in Date Palm by Male-Specific Sequence-Characterized Amplified Region (SCAR) Markers
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Chapter number | 17 |
Book title |
Date Palm Biotechnology Protocols Volume II
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-7159-6_17 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-7158-9, 978-1-4939-7159-6
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Authors |
Pushpa Kharb, Charu Mitra |
Abstract |
Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is a dioecious plant, and sex of the seedlings can be determined only at the time of first flowering which takes 4-5 years. Female date palm plants are of economic importance as they bear the fruit. Therefore, sex identification at an early stage is highly desirable. DNA-based markers are useful for early sex detection. In this chapter, we describe male-specific sequence-characterized amplified region (SCAR) markers to identify sex in date palm at the seedling stage. Genomic DNA is isolated separately from both male and female date palm genotypes. Amplification of this genomic DNA isolated from male and female plants using the SCAR primers results in an amplicon of 406 bp in both female and male samples and a unique amplicon of 354 bp only in male samples. Based on this amplification pattern, the sex of date palm seedlings can be predicted. |
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