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Sex expression and floral diversity in Jatropha curcas: a population study in its center of origin
Edilma Pérez-Castillo1  Sonia Ruiz-González1  Julieta Grajales-Conesa1  María de Lourdes Adriano-Anaya1  Miguel Salvador-Figueroa1  Alfredo Vázquez-Ovando1  Isidro Ovando-Medina1 
[1] Instituto de Biociencias, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico;
关键词: Breeding;    Chiapas;    Flowering;    Mexico;    Multivariate analysis;   
DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.2071
来源: DOAJ
【 摘 要 】

Sex expression and floral morphology studies are central to understand breeding behavior and to define the productive potential of plant genotypes. In particular, the new bioenergy crop Jatropha curcas L. has been classified as a monoecious species. Nonetheless, there is no information about its reproductive diversity in the Mesoamerican region, which is considered its center of origin and diversification. Thus, we determined sex expression and floral morphology in J. curcas populations from southern Mexico and Guatemala. Our results showed that most of J. curcas specimens had typical inflorescences with separate sexes (monoecious); meanwhile, the rest were atypical (gynoecious, androecious, andromonoecious, androgynomonoecious). The most important variables to group these populations, based on a discriminant analysis, were: male flower diameter, female petal length and male nectary length. From southern Mexico “Guerrero” was the most diverse population, and “Centro” had the highest variability among the populations from Chiapas. A cluster analysis showed that the accessions from southern Mexico were grouped without showing any correlation with the geographical origin, while those accessions with atypical sexuality were grouped together. To answer the question of how informative are floral morphological traits compared to molecular markers, we perform a Mantel correlation test between the distance matrix generated in this study and the genetic distance matrix (AFLP) previously reported for the same accessions. We found significant correlation between data at the level of accessions. Our results contribute to design genetic improvement programs by using sexually and morphologically contrasting plants from the center of origin.

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