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Molecular Genetic Diversity and Linkage Disequilibrium Structure of the Egyptian Faba Bean using Single Primer Enrichment Technology (SPET)

Research Authors
Ahmed Sallam, Ahmed Amro, Amira M.I. Mourad, Rafeek Abdallah, Andreas Boerner, Shamseldeen Eltaher
Research Abstract

Faba bean is an important legume crop. The genetic diversity among faba bean genotypes is very important for the genetic improvement of target traits. A set of 128 fab bean genotypes that are originally from Egypt were used in this study to investigate the genetic diversity and population structure. The 128 genotypes were genotyped using the Single Primer Enrichment Technology (SPET) by which a set of 6759 SNP markers were generated after filtration. The SNP markers were distributed on all chromosomes with a range extending from 822 (Chr. 6) to 1872 (Chr.1). The SNP markers had wide ranges of polymorphic information content (PIC), gene diversity (GD), and minor allele frequency. The analysis of population structure divided the Egyptian faba bean population into five subpopulations. Considerable genetic distance was found among all genotypes, ranging from 0.1 to 0.4. The highly divergent genotype 

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Research Journal
BMC Genomics
Research Publisher
Springer
Research Rank
Q1
Research Year
2024