many characteristics of pear trees such as growth, fruit size and yield, are influenced by the genetic characteristic of the rootstocks. in iran, mainly european pear seedlings (pyrus communis l.) are used as the rootstock in the pear orchards. thus, evaluation of pear seedling rootstocks is an important task. this experiment was conducted in 2009 and 2010 growing seasons in order to explore th...

Many AFLP studies include relatively unrelated genotypes that contribute noise to data sets instead of signal. We developed: (1) estimates of expected AFLP similarities between unrelated genotypes, (2) significance tests for AFLP similarities, enabling the detection of unrelated genotypes, and (3) weighted similarity coefficients, including band position information. Detection of unrelated geno...

Spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) is an economically important leafy vegetable crop in many countries. This is the first case study of using SRAP markers to analyze genetic diversity of Iranian spinach accessions. Eight SRAP primer combinations generated 88 scorable bands ranging from 50 to 1000 bp, among which 73 were polymorphic, with an average of 82.9 polymorphic bands per primer combination a...

A cytogenetical study on 13 alfalfa (Medicago sativa) cultivars available in Iranian Forest and Rangelands Genebank was performed in order to obtain basic information on the variability in chiasma frequency/distribution, chromosome association and segregation. Such cytogenetic information is useful for planning hybridization programs. Cluster analysis of meiotic data and ordination of cultivars...

it is important to identify the genetic diversity and phylogenic relationships for achieving desirable citrus cultivars. in present investigation rapd markers were used to determine genetic diversity among 29 citrus genotypes. from 19 used primers, 248 polymorphic bands were amplified. primers opa-07 and opa-05 (with 19 and 8 amplified bands), produced maximum and minimum polymorphic bands, res...

this research was conducted to investigate genotyp×environment interaction for grain yield of ten wheat cultivars in 8 environments (combinations of two nitrogen fertilizer treatment and four irrigation regimes). analysis of additive main effects (analysis of variance) and multiplicative interaction effects (principal component analysis) revealed that the effects of genotype, environment and ge...

Genetic divergence is an efficient tool for the selection of parents used in hybridization programme. In the present study, fifty three rice genotypes consisting of high yielding rice varieties/ cultures and IRRI germplasm lines were raised at Rice Research Station, Tirur during Sornavari, 2009 to identify diverse genotypes. They were evaluated for eight yield and yield attributing characters u...