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- Title
Establishing the genetic relationships between the wild and cultivated olives using a nuclear intron from nitrate reductase ( nia-i3).
- Authors
Hamman-Khalifa, A. M.; Navajas-Pérez, R.; Herrán, R.; Ruiz Rejón, M.; Garrido-Ramos, M. A.; Ruiz Rejón, C.; Rosúa, J. L.
- Abstract
In Oleaceae the most outstanding biological issue is to clarify the taxonomic relationships of cultivated and wild olives. To establish the genetic relationships between the wild ( Olea europaea subsp. europaea var. sylvestris (Mill.) Lehr.), the cultivated olive ( Olea europaea subsp. europaea var. europaea), and other taxa of the genus Olea ( Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata (Wall. ex G. Don) Cif., Olea europaea subsp. cerasiformis G. Kunkel & Sunding, Olea paniculata R. Br.) and other Oleaceae (represented by Ligustrum vulgaris) we carried out the amplification by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and the sequencing of the third nuclear intron of the nitrate reductase gene ( nia-i3). Sequence analyses showed the presence of two different functional variants of the intron ( nia1 and nia2) in the Oleaceae, in addition to a shorter non-functional one. Notably, while the shortest and the nia1 variants were present in all the taxa analysed, the nia2 variant was present only in the wild and the cultivated olive. These data confirm the close phylogenetic relationship between wild and cultivated olives and suggest that this gene could be duplicated in these two taxa after its divergence from the remaining Oleaceae. The presence of a target for AflII enzyme in nia2 and its absence in nia1 variant enables easy distinction by PCR-RFLP between, on the one hand, wild and cultivated olive, and on the other the remaining subspecies of the Olea europaea L. complex ( O. e. subsp. cuspidata and O. e. subsp. cerasiformis) as well as other Oleaceae ( O. paniculata, L. vulgaris L.). Additionally, nia1 sequences provide useful information about phylogeny of the wild and cultivated olives inside the genus Olea.
- Subjects
PLANT genetics; OLIVE; INTRONS; SPLIT genes; PLANT classification; POLYMERASE chain reaction
- Publication
Plant Systematics & Evolution, 2007, Vol 269, Issue 1/2, p63
- ISSN
0378-2697
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00606-007-0566-6