Portuguese Pinus nigra J.F. Arnold populations: genetic diversity, structure and relationships inferred by SSR markers

• DOI: 10.1007/s13595-020-00967-9
• Publication Date: 2020-06-19T14:02:52Z
• Authors: Alexandra Dias; Guia Giovannelli; Bruno Fady; Ilaria Spanu; Giovanni G Vendramin; Francesca Bagnoli; Ana Carvalho; Maria Emília Silva; José Lima-Brito; José Luís Lousada; Maria João Gaspar
• Keywords: 580; 0301 basic medicine; 570; 03 medical and health sciences; [SDV.SA.SF]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Silviculture; [SDV.SA.SF]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Silviculture, forestry; forestry; Polymorphism; Simple sequence repeats (SSRs); 15. Life on land; Microsatellites; European Black Pine

Pinus nigra J.F. Arnold has an ecological and economic interest in Europe, but many of the planted populations have an unknown origin and infraspecific taxonomy. Six Portuguese P. nigra populations characterised with microsatellites revealed high intra-population diversity structured into two clusters with low differentiation that might suggest two provenances or infraspecific taxa. Despite compared with foreign samples from different subspecies, we were not able to infer about the origin or infraspecific taxonomy of the Portuguese populations based on the pooled microsatellite data .