Inter- and intraspecific variation of chloroplast mini- and microsatellites DNA in the four closed related Acacia species

AYPBC Widyatmoko (Center for Forest Biotechonology and Tree Improvement, Yogyakarta)
Susumu Shiraishi (Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan)

Indonesian Journal of Biotechnology
Vol 19, No 1 (2014)

Mini- and microsatellites of four Acacia species, A. aulacocarpa, A. auriculiformis, A. crassicarpa and A.mangium were investigated on four non-coding regions of cpDNA, the intron of trnL, and the intergenicspacers of trnL - trnP, trnD - trnY, and trnP – trnW. Nine single base substitutions and six informative miniandmicrosatellites were detected in the the four cpDNA non-coding regions. Based on the substitutionsand mini- and microsatellites, ten cpDNA haplotypes (A - J) could be distinguished. Acacia auriculiformispossessed fi ve haplotypes, A. aulacocarpa, four haplotypes, and A. crassicarpa, three haplotypes. All samplesof A. mangium possessed the same haplotype. Mini- and microsatellites recognized in this study can beused for species identifi cation of the four Acacia species. The ten haplotypes could divided the four speciesinto 2 groups, A. aulacocarpa-A.crassicarpa group and A. auriculiformis-A. mangium group. By developing thePCR-based markers based on the sequence information, many experiments can be carried out for the Acaciaimprovement programs.