Abstract
Twenty-four sour cherry cultivars (genotypes), belonging to four cultivar groups were fingerprinted using microsatellite markers. All genotypes have been arisen from the Carpathian basin, which could be secondary gene centre of sour cherry, since its progenitor species, ground cherry and sweet cherry overlap here. Five SSR primer pairs, earlier used for fingerprinting Turkish sour cherry germplasm were tested. None of the five primer pairs showed any polymorphism within the cultivar groups. The primer pairs were able to distinguish between the cultivar groups. The Oblacsinszka and the Cigánymeggy cultivar groups were the most difficult to separate, while the Pándy cultivar group was the most distinguishable.
Highlights
Sour cherry (Prunus cerasus or Cerasus vulgaris) belongs to the family Rosaceae subfamily Prunoideae
The aim of the present study was to analyse some Hungarian cultivars arose from the sour cherry germplasm of the Carpathian basin
We investigated 24 Hungarian sour cherry cultivars and clones (Table 1), which were collected in the Fruit Research Station of Újfehértó
Summary
Sour cherry (Prunus cerasus or Cerasus vulgaris) belongs to the family Rosaceae subfamily Prunoideae. It is a tetraploid species (Darlington 1927, Kobel 1927); supposedly it has arisen by the crossing of the diploid Prunus avium and/or the tetraploid Prunus fruticosa and/or Prunus frutescens in the Near East or in the area of the Caucasus (Olden & Nybom, 1968). The spontaneous crossing of these species can be the reason for the numerous variation of sour cherry found country-wide. The Hungarian sour cherry landraces represent a wide diversity in fruit size, fruit colour and in ripening time (Szabó, 2008). Several descriptions have been published about the Hungarian cultivars arisen from the above landraces (Hrotkó, 2003)
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