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2010 International
Camellia Congress Kurume (Japón) 20 - 24 March, 2010
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| Characterization and differentiation of old Camellia japonica cultivars using simple sequence repeat (SSRs) as genetic markers Jose Luis Couselo¹, Pilar Vela¹*, Carmen Salinero¹, Mª Jesús Sainz² ¹Estación Fitopatolóxica do Areeiro. Deputación de Pontevedra. Subida a la Robleda s/n, E-36153 Pontevedra. ²Departamento de Producción Vegetal, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 27002 Lugo, España. |
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ABSTRACT: The ornamental camellia most widely cultivated is Camellia japonica, which comprises thousands of cultivars. Specimens of different cultivars are present in many historical gardens all over the world and have become elements of cultural heritage. In the gardens of manor houses in Galicia (NW Spain) and Portugal grow camellias more than one century old, in most cases unidentified though the appropriate identification of genetic resources of ornamental cultivars of C. japonica is crucial for management of the garden collections. The aim of the present work was to characterize and differentiate two groups of ancient specimens of Camellia japonica grown in gardens of Galicia and Northern Portugal using microsatellite genotyping, that initially were assigned to the cultivars ‘Bella Romana’ and ‘Prince Eugene Napoleon’ by morphobotanic descriptors. Keywords: microsatellites, Bella Romana, Prince Eugene Napoleon, Galicia, morphobotanic descriptors |
