Genetic Diversity of Peach Cultivars from the Collection of the Nikita Botanical Garden Based on SSR Markers
Journal: Plants
Year: 2021

The Nikita Botanical Garden (NBG) has a unique <i>Prunus</i> L. collection (peach, apricot, plum, cherry) comprising more than 3000 accessions. NBG is also a breeding center for stone fruits, including peach (<i>Prunus persica</i> (L.) Batsch). In the present study a set of 85 peach cultivars bred in NBG, Europe, and North America was analyzed using 12 SSR markers to assess their genetic diversity and relatedness. The detected polymorphism level was comparable to the previous estimates of geneti