Tropical Plant Pathology (2016) 41, 288-296

Wan-kuan Shen, Gang-hong Xu, Ming-zhu Luo and Zi-de Jiang (2016)
Genetic diversity of Sporisorium scitamineum in mainland China assessed by SCoT analysis
Tropical Plant Pathology 41 (5), 288-296
Abstract: The genetic relationships among 90 mating-type isolates of Sporisorium scitamineum collected from mainland China were evaluated based on the start codon-targeted (SCoT) marker technique. Fourteen selected SCoT primers amplified 135 DNA fragments, of which 98 (72.6 %) were polymorphic. The polymorphic information content values ranged from 0.649 to 0.910 with an average of 0.820, indicating that a high degree of genetic diversity exists among these Chinese S. scitamineum isolates. Cluster groups identified using the unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA) and principal component analysis (PCA) were similar and divided the 90 S. scitamineum isolates into three main groups (G₁, G_2, and G₃) based on a Jaccard's similarity coefficient of 0.74. The S. scitamineum isolates collected from the same province tended to cluster in the same main groups. This study showed that the genetic diversity of the 90 S. scitamineum isolates was associated with their geographic origin, with no evidence of coevolution between the host and S. scitamineum. The knowledge of genetic diversity of S. scitamineum is useful in breeding programs for development of smut-resistant sugarcane genotypes. The results of this study demonstrate that SCoT markers are informative and can be used to evaluate the genetic diversity of S. scitamineum.
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Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
molecular biology - genes

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Sporisorium scitamineum	Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum)	China (south)