MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR EVALUATION OF SOME MANDARIN CULTIVARS | ||
| Journal of Agricultural Chemistry and Biotechnology | ||
| Article 2, Volume 5, Issue 4, April 2014, Pages 113-128 PDF (570.93 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jacb.2014.49884 | ||
| Authors | ||
| H. Hegazi1; N.R. Samra1; R.A. Sayed2; A. M. A. Kheder2 | ||
| 1Hort. Dept., Fac. Agric., Mansoura Univ. | ||
| 2Citrus Res. Dept., Hort. Res. Institute, ARC, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This work was carried out to evaluate ten new mandarin cultivars (Citrus reticulata Blanco) with respect to the local cultivar (Baladi mandarin). The investigation was executed during the two successive seasons of 2011 to 2013 at the Horticultural Research Station South El Tahrier, Beheira Governorate. The evaluation involved both the growth and productivity which included yield traits and fruit physical and chemical characteristics. The ten cultivars showed significant variations when compared with the local mandarin cultivar for leaf characteristics, tree canopy volume, and fruit weight and fruit chemical properties. DNA fingerprint was performed using RAPD technique for characterization the studied cultivars. RAPD analyses exhibited a total of 14 bands among them, 13 bands were polymorphic of about 92.85%. Those bands were used to distinguish among cultivars. Both morphological and molecular analyses showed a high degree of variation among the new cultivars, indicating that they have an important source of genetic diversity which would be used in future citrus in breeding programs. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| mandarin; Morphological evaluation; Genetic diversity; fingerprint | ||
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