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Vasconcellea

About: Vasconcellea is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 85 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1451 citations.


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01 Jun 2002-Genome
TL;DR: The results from AFLP markers provided detailed estimates of the genetic variation within and among papaya cultivars, and supported the notion that C. papaya diverged from the rest of Carica species early in the evolution of this genus.
Abstract: Genetic relationships among Carica papaya cultivars, breeding lines, unimproved germplasm, and related species were established using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers. Seventy-...

111 citations

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TL;DR: The authors investigated the evolution of the Caricaceae based on sequences from all species and genera, the monospecific Carica, African Cylicomorpha with two species, South American Jacaratia and Vasconcellea with together c. 28 species, and Mexican/Guatemalan Jarilla and Horovitzia with four species.

106 citations

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TL;DR: The specific clustering of the highly diverse group of Vasconcella × heilbornii accessions suggests that these genotypes may be the result of bi-directional introgression events between Vascon cella stipulata and Vascon Cella cundinamarcensis.
Abstract: The AFLP technique was used to assess the genetic relationships among the cultivated papaya (Carica papaya L) and related species native to Ecuador Genetic distances based on AFLP data were estimated for 95 accessions belonging to three genera including C papaya, at least eight Vasconcella species and two Jacaratia species Cluster analysis using different methods and principal co-ordinate analysis (PCO), based on the AFLP data from 496 polymorphic bands generated with five primer combinations, was performed The resulted grouping of accessions of each species corresponds largely with their taxonomic classifications and were found to be consistent with other studies based on RAPD, isozyme and cpDNA data The AFLP analysis supports the recent rehabilitation of the Vasconcella group as a genus; until recently Vasconcella was considered as a section within the genus Carica Both cluster and PCO analysis clearly separated the species of the three genera and illustrated the large genetic distance between C papaya accessions and the Vasconcella group The specific clustering of the highly diverse group of Vasconcella × heilbornii accessions also suggests that these genotypes may be the result of bi-directional introgression events between Vasconcella stipulata and Vasconcella cundinamarcensis

99 citations

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TL;DR: The chloroplast and mitochondrial DNA diversity of 61 genotypes belonging to 18 Vasconcellea species was studied by PCR-RFLP analysis, and intraspecific cpDNA variation was detected in V. × heilbornii, providing molecular evidence for the high diversity previously indicated by morphological observations.
Abstract: The chloroplast and mitochondrial DNA diversity of 61 genotypes belonging to 18 Vasconcellea species, the so-called highland papayas, was studied by PCR-RFLP analysis of two non-coding cpDNA regions (trnM-rbcL and trnK1-trnK2) and one non-coding mtDNA region (nad4/1-nad4/2). This sample set was supplemented with six genotypes belonging to three other Caricaceae genera: the monotypic genus Carica, including only the cultivated papaya, and the genera Jacaratia and Cylicomorpha. Moringa ovalifolia was added as an outgroup species. The PCR-amplified cpDNA regions were digested with 18 restriction endonucleases, the mtDNA region with 11. A total of 22 point mutations and four insertion/deletions were scored in the sample. A higher level of interspecific variation was detected in the two cpDNA regions in comparison to the analysis of the mtDNA. Wagner parsimony and Neighbor-Joining analysis resulted in dendrograms with similar topologies. PCR-RFLP analysis supported the monophyly of Caricaceae, but among the 26 mutations scored, an insufficient number of markers discriminated between the different Caricaceae genera included in this study. Hence the inference of the intergeneric relationships within Caricaceae was impossible. However, some conclusions can be noted at a lower taxonomic level. The Caricaceae species were divided into two lineages. One group included only Vasconcellea spp., whereas the second included the remaining Vasconcellea spp., together with the papaya genotypes and those from the other Caricaceae genera. This may indicate a higher level of inter-fertility for the Vasconcellea species from the latter clade in interspecific crossings with papaya. The putative progenitors of the natural sterile hybrid V. × heilbornii, i.e. V. stipulata and V. cundinamarcensis, were only distantly related to V. × heilbornii. This indicates that probably none of these species was involved as the maternal progenitor in the origin of V. × heilbornii. Surprisingly, V. × heilbornii had organellar genome patterns identical with V. weberbaueri, suggesting a possible involvement of this species in the origin of V. × heilbornii. On the basis of discrepancy between morphological traits and the cpDNA profiles of some pairs of Vasconcellea species, we believe that besides V. × heilbornii, some other species have originated through interspecific hybridization. A reticulate evolution for Vasconcellea has therefore been suggested. Finally, intraspecific cpDNA variation was detected in V. microcarpa, thus providing molecular evidence for the high diversity previously indicated by morphological observations.

79 citations

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TL;DR: The phylogenetic relationships among twelve wild and cultivated species of Carica (Caricaceae) were analyzed using restriction fragment length variation in a 3.2-kb PCR amplified intergenic spacer region of the chloroplast DNA and showed two basic evolutionary lineages within the genus Carica.
Abstract: The phylogenetic relationships among twelve wild and cultivated species of Carica (Caricaceae) were analyzed using restriction fragment length variation in a 3.2-kb PCR amplified intergenic spacer region of the chloroplast DNA. A total of 138 fragments representing 137 restriction sites accounting for 5.8% of the amplified region were examined. Both parsimony and neighbor joining cluster analyses confirmed the close association among South American wild Carica species. However, cpDNA data did not support the traditional monophyly hypothesis for the evolution of Carica. Further, cpDNA analyses showed two basic evolutionary lineages within the genus Carica, one defined by cultivated C. papaya and another consisting of the remaining wild species from South America in a well resolved but poorly supported monophyletic assemblage. This evolutionary split in Carica strongly suggests that C. papaya diverged from the rest of the species early in the evolution of the genus and evolved in isolation, probably in Central America.

70 citations

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