Abstract
Turkey has a high diversity of native and commercially grown plants. European cranberrybush, a fruit species grown commercially in the country, is of interest because of its health benefits. This study aimed to determine genetic diversity uisng morphological, molecular, and phytochemical markers in twenty-four different genotypes of European cranberrybush from Kayseri province, which is an important region in the production of plant in Turkey. The results show wide variations among genotypes in the morphological parameters. The G13 genotype was the prominent genotype compared to other genotypes in leaf length (130.69 mm), leaf width (135.76 mm) and fruit length (10.01 mm). The fruit weights of genotypes varied between 0.16 g and 0.80 g. In ISSR marker analysis, out of 73 scoreable bands obtained from 11 different primer sets, 44 were polymorphic. The average polymorphism rate in the study was 60.27%, and the similarity index of the genotypes varied between 0.77 and 0.95. Total flavonoid, phenolic and anthocyanin content ranged from 106.28 mg CAE/100 g to 318.87 mg CAE/100 g, 451.23 mg GAE/100 g to 679.57 mg GAE/100 g, and 16.48 mg cyn-3-gluc /100 g to 21.36 mg cyn-3-gluc /100 g, respectively. The results of this study can be useful to plant breeders interested in developing and conserving the species and provide a baseline for new studies on European cranberry.
Highlights
Turkey is a very important country in the world in terms of plant diversity. (Gümüş and Avcı., 2020; Ozturk et al, 2020)
Total phenolic and total anthocyanin contents ranged from 106.28 mg catechin equivalent (CAE)/100 g to 318.87 mg CAE/100 g, 451.23 mg GAE/100 g to 679.57 mg GAE/100 g, 21.36 mg cyn-3-gluc /100 g to 16.48 mg cyn-3-gluc /100 g, respectively
European Cranberyybush (Viburnum opulus L.) is one of the fruits that has increased in production in recent years, it is from the Caprifoliaceae family (Al et al, 2017), and Europe, Northwest Africa, Turkestan, and Canada are accepted as the homeland for European Cranberrybush(ECB) (Richard and Pierre 1992; Ozrenk et al, 2020)
Summary
Turkey is a very important country in the world in terms of plant diversity. (Gümüş and Avcı., 2020; Ozturk et al, 2020). Considering that some features such as yield, quality, resistance to diseases and pests in plants are controlled by multiple genes, there is a need for multidisciplinary studies in which morphological, biochemical, and molecular marker analyzes are combined. These studies, which were carried out in the ECB species, were generally morphological (Ozkan et al, 2020), molecular (Krupa-Małkiewicz et al, 2014) and phytochemical (Polka et al, 2019), and multidisciplinary studies are almost nonexistent in the literature. It was aimed to determine the genetic diversity of 24 different ECB genotypes with some morphological, phytochemical, and molecular markers in the Kayseri province, where the ECB population is dense in Turkey
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