Development of a New Marker System for Identification of Spirodela polyrhiza and Landoltia punctata

摘要

Lemnaceae (commonly called duckweed) is an aquatic plant ideal for quantitative analysis in plant sciences. Several species of this family represent the smallest and fastest growing flowering plants. Different ecotypes of the same species vary in their biochemical and physiological properties. Thus, selecting of desirable ecotypes of a species is very important. Here, we developed a simple and rapid molecular identification system for Spirodela polyrhiza and Landoltia punctata based on the sequence polymorphism.First, several pairs of primers were designed and three markers were selected as good for identification. After PCR amplification,DNA fragments (the combination of three PCR products)in different duckweeds weredetecte dusing capillary electrophoresis. Thehigh-resolution capillary electrophoresis displayed high identity to the sequencing results. The combination of the PCR productscontaining several DNA fragments highly improved the identification frequency. These results indicate that this method is not onlygood for interspecies identification but also ideal for intraspecies distinguishing. Meanwhile, 11 haplotypes were found in both theS.polyrhiza and L. punctata ecotypes. The results suggest that this marker system is useful for large-scaleident ification of duckweed and for the screening of desirable ecotypes to improve the diverse usage in duckweed utilization.