Genetic diversity determined by agronomic traits and SSR markers in two South American orange‐fleshed sweetpotato breeding populations
with potential for population hybrid breeding.
Abstract
Orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) breeding populations have gained importance for food security and health reasons. This study’s main objectives were to determine genetic diversity in parental material of two OFSP populations (PJ and PZ) relative to mega-clones (MCs) using agronomic traits and simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers and to determine whether PJ and PZ are mutually heterotic by developing a PJ × PZ hybrid population (H0).
Citation
Diaz, F., Eyzaguirre, R., David, M., Sevillano, R. B., Low, J., & Grüneberg, W. (2021). Genetic diversity determined by agronomic traits and SSR markers in two South American orange‐fleshed sweetpotato breeding populations with potential for population hybrid breeding. Crop Science. ISSN 1435-0653. 43 p