1Laboratory of Physiology, Physiopathology and Biochemistry of Nutrition (PPABIONUT), Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences, Earth and Universe, Abou-Bekr Belkaid University. 22, Rue Abi Ayad Abdelkrim, Fg Pasteur B.P 119, Tlemcen, 13000, Algeria
2Department of Agronomy, Faculty of of Natural and Life Sciences, Earth and Universe, Abou-Bekr Belkaid University. Tlemcen, 13000, Algeria
3Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences, Earth and Universe, Abou-Bekr Belkaid University, Tlemcen, 13000, Algeria
4International centers for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Morocco
5Faculty of Science, Oran University of Science and Technology Mohamed Boudiaf (USTO), El Mnaouar, BP 1505, Bir El Djir, 31000, Oran, Algeria
*Corresponding Author: Bouri Amina, Laboratory of Physiology, Physiopathology and Biochemistry of Nutrition (PPABIONUT), Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences, Earth and Universe, Abou-Bekr Belkaid University, Algeria. Email: bouri.amina@ymail.com
Online published on 23 May, 2020.
The present study aimed to characterize a subset of 10 selected chickpea accessions (Cicer arietinum L.) using SSR. The result indicated a presence of a total of 59 alleles. The genetic diversity at the 15 microsatellites loci was varied from 0, 32 for TA22 to 0.78 for TA72 and TA117 with an average of 0.66. Polymorphic information content (PIC) values ranged from 0.27 to 0.74. This study also detected a high significant (P > 0.01) positive correlation between alleles per locus, gene diversity (H) and polymorphism information content (PIC). In the dendrogram and on the PCoA bi-plots, chickpea genotypes were adjoined according to their geographic origin, type of chickpea (Kabuli/Desi). Nevertheless, the distribution of the different grouping through the factorial correspondence analysis (AFC) is due to the genetic variability.
Chickpea, Cicer arietinum L, Genetic diversity, North West of Algeria, SSR
