Chapter title |
Assessing Date Palm Genetic Diversity Using Different Molecular Markers
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Chapter number | 12 |
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_12 |
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Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-7158-9, 978-1-4939-7159-6
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Authors |
Mohamed A. M. Atia, Mahmoud M. Sakr, Sami S. Adawy |
Abstract |
Molecular marker technologies which rely on DNA analysis provide powerful tools to assess biodiversity at different levels, i.e., among and within species. A range of different molecular marker techniques have been developed and extensively applied for detecting variability in date palm at the DNA level. Recently, the employment of gene-targeting molecular marker approaches to study biodiversity and genetic variations in many plant species has increased the attention of researchers interested in date palm to carry out phylogenetic studies using these novel marker systems. Molecular markers are good indicators of genetic distances among accessions, because DNA-based markers are neutral in the face of selection. Here we describe the employment of multidisciplinary molecular marker approaches: amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP), start codon targeted (SCoT) polymorphism, conserved DNA-derived polymorphism (CDDP), intron-targeted amplified polymorphism (ITAP), simple sequence repeats (SSR), and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) to assess genetic diversity in date palm. |
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