Abstract
Centaurea is a value-ultimate genus of medicinal plants showing high diversification levels, especially within the Mediterranean basin, and is still traditionally recognized as a complicated taxon. So far, few studies utilizing molecular markers have been done on Centaurea spp. towards a better dissection of its phylogeny and accurate assessment of genetic diversity. Here, two functional marker systems, start codon targeted (SCoT) polymorphism and CAAT box-derived polymorphism (CBDP), were implemented to assess the genetic diversity between eight wild Centaurea species in Egypt. Seventeen SCoT and 19 CBDP primers generated 197 and 179 bands, respectively. These primers generated 158 (80.2%) and 131 (73.18%) polymorphic amplicons with an average of 9.29 and 6.89 amplicons per primer, respectively. SCoT primers exhibited higher levels in % of polymorphism, % of heterozygosity, effective multiplex ratio, discriminating power, resolving power parameters compared to the CBDP. In contrast, no significant differences were observed between SCoT and CBDP in polymorphism information content, marker index and mean heterozygosity parameters. The UPGMA (unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean) dendrogram of the combined data classified the Centaurea species under two major clades; the first comprised two species, whereas the second grouped five species. C. pallescens was kept separated as the most diverged among the eight Centaurea species. Principal component analysis (PCA) topology revealed highly similar results to those obtained from the cluster analysis. Ultimately, our results represent the first report utilising two gene-targeting marker systems as powerful techniques for assessing the genetic variability and relatedness among these eight valuable Centaurea species.
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