Abstract
Close to 66% of the annual national production of the brown alga Undaria pinnatifida, about 115 thousand tonnes (fresh weight), is produced through farming in Liaoning Province in north China. To clarify the agronomic characters and genetic differences of currently farmed U. pinnatifida, we investigated three major farmed cultivars in combination with other traditional ones focusing specially on sporophylls, one of the principal end products in a typical farm at Lvshun, Dalian city. Results showed that these cultivars differ in timing of maturation and are arranged to be harvested in sequence in the farm to diversify the periods of harvesting and processing. Sporophyll fresh weight and the stipe width are positively correlated with the growth of the plant. Ten neutral microsatellite markers were used to assess relationships among major farmed cultivars. Both genetic distance and Bayesian model-based analyses showed that there was genetic differentiation among C1, C2, and other traditional cultivars. C3 showed the highest genetic variations in major farmed cultivars, with three private alleles and a mean expected heterozygosity of 0.817. In general, prominent genetic divergences were found among different cultivars confirming the effect of consecutive selection, while weak relationships were observed between sporophyll forms and genotypes.
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Abbreviations
- TL:
-
Total length
- BL:
-
Blade length
- TW:
-
Total width
- UBW:
-
Undivided blade width
- SW:
-
Stipe width
- SPL:
-
Sporophyll length
- SPW:
-
Sporophyll width
- DSB:
-
Distance between sporophyll and blade
- TFW:
-
Total fresh weight
- SFW:
-
Sporophyll fresh weight
- BA:
-
Blade area
- AGR:
-
Absolute growth rate
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Fig. S1
Comparisons of morphological characteristics among three cultivars (C1, C2 and C3). Different small letters indicate significant differences in morphological features among cultivars in the same month (p<0.05) (PNG 2081 kb)
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Spearman rank correlation coefficients of measurements in C1 (a), C2 (b), and C3 (c) (PNG 8950 kb)
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The values of deltaK (PNG 3920 kb)
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Scatter plots of discriminant analyses of principal components (DAPC) that reveal the genetic relationships among the elite cultivars, the traditional cultivars, and new cultivars of Undaria pinnatifida (PNG 709 kb)
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Li, X., Pang, S., Shan, T. et al. Morphological and genetic analyses of the current major cultivars of Undaria pinnatifida at Lvshun, Dalian, the principal farming region in North China. J Appl Phycol 33, 3251–3260 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-021-02489-x
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