Evaluation of Clonal Fidelity of Micropropagated Date Palm by Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD)

Author(s):  
Arpan Modi ◽  
Bhavesh Gajera ◽  
Naraynan Subhash ◽  
Nitish Kumar
2022 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Aisyah Mohd Ismail ◽  
Farida Zuraina Mohd Yusof

Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) applies single arbitrary short primers (8-12nucleotides) to produce many amplified discrete DNA. Limited reports and studies were done onthe use of long primers (over 12 bases). This study was performed to investigate the potential valueof long primers (15-21 bases) for generating RAPD polymorphisms. We compared both short andlong primers in RAPD assays of two date palm cultivars grown in Malaysia: Ajwa and Barhi. Thenumber of produced polymorphic fragments ranged in order from 2 and 38 bands for short andlong primers in Ajwa. Meanwhile, more polymorphic fragments were generated by long primersin Barhi, which were 50 and only five bands for short primers. 18-mer GY107 and 20-mer CO4primers yielded 100% polymorphism in Ajwa and Barhi, respectively. Moreover, long primersproduced more DNA fragments and a wider range of DNA fragment sizes (from 140-1600 bp,with respect to 300-1000 bp obtained with 10-mer primers). Hence, a significant correlation wasobserved between primer length and the number of polymorphic fragments within the long primergroup, suggesting that increasing primer length above 15 bases may demonstrate enhancedproduction of more polymorphism.


2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
MM Rahman ◽  
L Rahman ◽  
SN Begum ◽  
F Nur

Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) assay was initiated for molecular genetic analysis among 13 F3 rice lines and their parents. Four out of 15 decamer random primers were used to amplify genomic DNA and the primers yielded a total of 41 RAPD markers of which 37 were considered as polymorphic with a mean of 9.25 bands per primer. The percentage of polymorphic loci was 90.24. The highest percentage of polymorphic loci (14.63) and gene diversity (0.0714) was observed in 05-6 F3 line and the lowest polymorphic loci (0.00) and gene diversity (0.00) was found in 05-12 and 05-15 F3 lines. So, relatively high level of genetic variation was found in 05-6 F3 line and it was genetically more diverse compared to others. The average co-efficient of gene differentiation (GST) and gene flow (Nm) values across all the loci were 0.8689 and 0.0755, respectively. The UPGMA dendrogram based on the Nei’s genetic distance differentiated the rice genotypes into two main clusters: PNR-519, 05-19, 05-14, 05-12 and 05-17 grouped in cluster 1. On the other hand, Baradhan, 05-9, 05-13, 05-11, 05-5, 05-6, 05-1, 05-4, 05-15 and 05-25 were grouped in cluster 2. The highest genetic distance (0.586) was found between 05-4 and 05-17 F3 lines and they remain in different cluster.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/pa.v20i1-2.16839 Progress. Agric. 20(1 & 2): 1 – 8, 2009


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