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SCREENING FOR RESISTANCE TO PLUM POX VIRUS IN SOME LOCAL TURKISH APRICOT CULTIVARS AND THEIR CROSSES BY MOLECULAR MARKERS
Article number
1063_17
Pages
123 – 128
Language
English
Abstract
Turkey is the most important producer and exporter country of apricot, Prunus armeniaca. Production of apricots for fresh market relies on foreign cultivars grown on Mediterranean and Aegean regions while Malatya is the most important region for production of dry apricots based on local cultivars. Plum pox virus (PPV) in Turkey has been known since 1968, but it was not widespread until recent years.
Malatya region has been free of sharka disease so far, but the disease has already been reported from many different provinces since 2006. Because of that, introgression of resistance to PPV in the local cultivars with good pomological characteristics became an important objective for the apricot crop.
In the current breeding program, obtaining new cultivars resistant to PPV, selection of resistant seedlings by using molecular markers linked to PPV resistance was aimed at.
Nineteen local apricot genitors and progenies obtained from the crosses between the PPV resistant cultivar Stark Early Orange (SEO), Harcot and local cultivars such as Hacıhaliloğlu, Kabaaşı, Hasanbey, Çöloğlu, Adilcevaz5, Şekerpare, MahmudunEriği, Soğancı and Çataloğlu were screened with markers.
The markers PGS1.21 and PGS2.23 co-segregating with resistance to PPV were used to screen a total of 189 apricot progenies.
None of the local genitors had alleles linked to PPV resistance.
Among the progenies screened, 15 seedlings from Şekerpare by SEO, 12 from Adilcevaz5 by SEO, 7 from Hacıhaliloğlu by SEO, 9 from Kabaaşı by SEO, 5 from Çöloğlu by SEO, 9 from Çataloğlu by SEO, 4 from Hasanbey by SEO, and 1 from MahmudunEriği by SEO and none of the Harcot by Soğancı presented resistant alleles and were selected for further studies.
Malatya region has been free of sharka disease so far, but the disease has already been reported from many different provinces since 2006. Because of that, introgression of resistance to PPV in the local cultivars with good pomological characteristics became an important objective for the apricot crop.
In the current breeding program, obtaining new cultivars resistant to PPV, selection of resistant seedlings by using molecular markers linked to PPV resistance was aimed at.
Nineteen local apricot genitors and progenies obtained from the crosses between the PPV resistant cultivar Stark Early Orange (SEO), Harcot and local cultivars such as Hacıhaliloğlu, Kabaaşı, Hasanbey, Çöloğlu, Adilcevaz5, Şekerpare, MahmudunEriği, Soğancı and Çataloğlu were screened with markers.
The markers PGS1.21 and PGS2.23 co-segregating with resistance to PPV were used to screen a total of 189 apricot progenies.
None of the local genitors had alleles linked to PPV resistance.
Among the progenies screened, 15 seedlings from Şekerpare by SEO, 12 from Adilcevaz5 by SEO, 7 from Hacıhaliloğlu by SEO, 9 from Kabaaşı by SEO, 5 from Çöloğlu by SEO, 9 from Çataloğlu by SEO, 4 from Hasanbey by SEO, and 1 from MahmudunEriği by SEO and none of the Harcot by Soğancı presented resistant alleles and were selected for further studies.
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Authors
C. Ulubaş Serçe, M. Gazel , K. Çağlayan, B.M. Asma, M.L. Badenes
Keywords
Turkish apricot cultivars, sharka disease, marker assisted selection
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