Genotyping-by-sequencing identifies date palm clone preference in agronomics of the State of Qatar. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Understanding the genetic diversity in a crop population is key to its targeted breeding for desired traits, such as higher yields, better fruit quality and resistance to disease and changing climates. Date fruits represent a major crop in the Middle East and are key to achieving future food independence in arid countries like Qatar. We previously determined the genome of the date palm Phoenix dactylifera and showed that date palm trees world-wide divide into two distinct subpopulations of Eastern and Western origins. Here we applied a resource of SNPs from 179 commercially available date fruits to assess the genetic diversity of date palm trees grown in the State of Qatar. We found that palm trees in Qatar are mainly of Eastern origin, and that their genetic diversity doesn't associate with regions of the State. Together with targeted genetic assays, our resource can be used in the future for date palm cultivar identification, to aid selecting suitable cultivars for targeted breeding, to improve a country's date palm genetic diversity, and to certify the origin of date fruits and trees.

publication date

  • December 5, 2018

Research

keywords

  • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
  • Phoeniceae

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC6281209

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85058059661

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.dib.2018.04.012

PubMed ID

  • 30517143

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 13

issue

  • 12