Pedigree and SSR Data Analysis Reveal Dominant Prevalence of Few Parents in Pedigrees of Pakistani Wheat Varieties
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53140#.VLXZIMnQrzE Author(s) Muhammad Sajjad 1* , Sultan Habibullah Khan 2 , Rizwana Maqbool 3 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Vehari, Pakistan . 2 Center for Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan . 3 Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, USA . ABSTRACT The international recognition of the importance of genetic diversity demands continuous estimation of genetic diversity of in hand population as test of its buffering capacity against all putative threats. Randomly selected Pakistani wheat varieties developed during 1965-1999 and 2000-2011 were evaluated on the basis of pedigree and SSR data. At 2nd and 3rd levels of pedigree, average occurrence of a parent per variety was 2.1 times. The...