IRAP and REMAP based genetic diversity among varieties of Lallemantia iberica.

This study describes the genetic relationships among 34 varieties of Lallemantia iberica using inter-retrotransposon amplified polymorphism (IRAP) and retrotransposon-microsatellite amplified polymorphism (REMAP). Samples were collected from Agriculture Research Center of Urmia city (northwest Iran). Ten IRAP and REMAP primers generated 76 scorable electrophoretic bands with 78.94% polymorphism. The pair-wise Jacquard genetic similarity varied from 0.48 to 0.94 for IRAP and REMAP data combined. Average PIC values for IRAP and REMAP markers were 0.38. The retro-elements marker system produced 76 alleles in range of 100- 3000 bp. The cophenetic correlation coefficient between Jaccard's similarity matrix and the plotted dendrogram was 0.66. A dendrogram constructed based on COMPLETE LINKAGE. Cluster analysis of IRAP and REMAP data using the NTSYSpc 2.02 resulted in five clusters. The present study represents high genetic distance at genotype level suggesting that IRAP and REMAP markers are useful for Lallemantia iberica genetic diversity analysis.