Genetic Fingerprinting of Palestinian Olive (Olea Europea L.) Cultivars Using SNP Markers
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Jordan Journal of Agricultural Sciences, Volume 5, No.3, 2009 Genetic Fingerprinting of Palestinian Olive (Olea europea L.) Cultivars Using SNP Markers Rezq A. Basheer-Salimia* , Murad K. Awad * and Panagiotis K. Kalaitzis ** ABSTRACT The study of the genetic relationships among Palestinian olive cultivars is very important in order to assess their genetic diversity and structural details. A collection of five cultivars including Roomi, Souri, Improved Nabali, Barenge K18 and Wild Type were analyzed by using the sequences of two genes' fragments in which a panel of twenty-five Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) were identified. It is found that this group of SNPs is not efficient enough to discriminate among all of the cultivars. However, it is useful for varietal survey and construction of a database of Palestinian olive cultivars and for providing additional information that could constitute the basis for a rational scheme of breeding programs. Keywords: Genetic fingerprinting, SNP markers, Olive (Olea europea L.). INTRODUCTION The archaeological findings demonstrate that the Syrian- Palestinian region was the center of origin of olive The Olive (Olea europea L.) is the most important cultivation (Zohary and Hopf, 1994; Remesal- crop in Palestinian agriculture in terms of area covered Rodriguez, 1996; Basheer-Salimia, 2004). as well as economic returns. It covers about (100000) Genetically, olive, an ancient tree (Lopes et al., hectares distributed all over the West Bank and Gaza 2004), is an outcrossing diploid species (2n = 46) (Reale strip and it is distinguished as the major tree in the rain et al., 2006) cultivated throughout the Mediterranean fed areas, covering about 45% of the total cultivated area basin (Reale et al., 2006; Taamalli et al., 2006). in the West Bank and contributes to about 40% of total Nowadays, olive cultivation is significant to the rustic fruit production (PCBS, 2005). economy as well as to the environmental equilibrium of Olive in the family of Oleaceae is one of the oldest the producing regions (Lopes et al., 2004). known cultivated trees worldwide and the Identification of olive cultivars is actually Mediterranean region is considered its center of origin. sophisticated because of the huge number of varietal synonyms and homonyms (Bandelj et al., 2002). Hence, *Department of Plant Production and Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Hebron University, Hebron, P.O.Box 40, there is a crucial necessity for the development of Palestine. methods that denominate olive efficiently and swiftly **Department of Horticultural Genetics and (Torre et al., 2004). In olive, DNA markers are being Biotechnology, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Chania, Greece. developed to identify and characterize olive cultivars Email: [email protected] and to determine the varietal composition (Consolandi et Received on 11/6/2008 and Accepted for Publication on al., 2007) including randomly amplified polymorphic 11/11/2008. DNAs (RAPDs) (Hess et al., 2000; Besnard et al., -282- © 2009 DAR Publishers/University of Jordan. All Rights Reserved. Genetic Fingerprinting… Rezq A. Basheer-Salimia et al. 2001; Sanz-Cortez et al., 2001; Nikoloudakis et al., (Consolandi et al., 2007), they can be widely used for 2003; Shu-Biao and Sedgley, 2004 ), Amplified certification of cultivars and lines (Saghai Maroof et al., Fragment Length Polymorphisms (AFLPs) (Belaj et al., 1994; Khlestkina and Salina, 2006; Shirasawa et al., 2003; Sanz-Cortez et al., 2003; Sensi et al., 2003; Owen 2006). et al., 2005), Restriction Fragment Length The aim of this study is to establish an SNPs Polymorphisms (RFLPs) (Besnard and Breville, 2000; database for the Palestinian olive cultivars and to ensure Besnard et al., 2001; De Caraffa et al., 2002), Sequence that all future projects in the related field are conducted Characterized Amplified Regions (SCARs) (Hernandez on the same cultivars. et al., 2001a; Hernandez et al., 2001b; Mekuria et al., 2002; Shu-Biao and Sedgley, 2004), Simple Sequence MATERIALS AND METHODS: Repeats (SSRs) or Microsatellite Markers (Rallo et al., Plant Materials: Fresh leaves of the five Palestinian 2000; Sefc et al., 2000; Bandelj et al., 2002, Carriero et olive cultivars (Roomi, Souri, Improved Nabali, Barenge al., 2002; Cipriani et al., 2002; Shu-Biao and Sedgley, K18 and Wild Type) were randomly collected and piled 2004), Inter-Simple Sequence Repeats (ISSRs) (Hess et up in October 2006 from single plants on the campus of al., 2000; Vargas and Kadereit, 2001) and Single Hebron University (Hebron, Palestine) (Table 1). The Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) (Palmieri et al., first four cultivars represent some of the eminent 2004; Reale et al., 2006; Consolandi et al., 2007). cultivated cultivars in Palestine. Subsequently, these Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are the samples were brought and stored at 4°C at most abundant form of genetic variation in most Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (Chania- organisms (Khlestkina and Salina, 2006). Because of their Greece) where this research was carried out. ability to distinguish among very similar cultivars Table (1): List of olive cultivars analyzed in this study. No. Code Cultivar name Source 1 PA1 Barenge K18 Hebron University Campus, Palestine 2 PA2 Improved Nabali Hebron University Campus, Palestine 3 PA3 Roomi Hebron University Campus, Palestine 4 PA4 Souri Hebron University Campus, Palestine 5 PA5 Wild TypeHebron University Campus, Palestine DNA Extraction: The choice of DNA extraction (Woolley et al., 2001) and Phenol/chloroform purification protocol depends on the quality and the quantity of the and ethanol precipitation were carried out as described in: DNA needed, nature of samples and the presence of (Sambrook et al., 1989)] was used for DNA extraction natural substances that may interfere with the extraction from the leaves of the five cultivars. The use of and subsequent analysis (Semagn et al., 2006). Therefore, cycloartenol synthase and lupeol synthase genes, which CTAB method by Woolley (Woolley et al., 2001) with are entailed in sterol biosynthesis (Haralampidis et al., few modifications [RNase was added additionally to 2001; Stiti et al., 2007), is based on what has been found -283- Jordan Journal of Agricultural Sciences, Volume 5, No.3, 2009 in the olive genome (Palmieri et al., In Press; Reale et al., PCR reaction mix up to the appropriate volume. 2006). The amplifications of cycloartenol synthase and Polymerase chain reaction was carried out by initial lupeol synthase were carried out by Polymerase Chain denaturation of template DNA for 10 minutes at 95°C, Reaction (PCR) using their primer pairs Cyclo2, Cyclo3 followed by 35 cycles of denaturation (95°C for 30 s), and Lup, respectively. annealing (60°C for 30 s)and extension (72°C for 60 s), PCR: Its amplifications were carried out using 1 x with a final extension step at 72°C for 10 minutes. PCR AmpliTaqGold® PCR buffer (100mM Tris-HCl (pH products were then purified using (Strata Prep® DNA 8.3), 500mM KCl), 2.5 mM MgCl2, 200 µM for each Gel Extraction Kit). To check the quality as well as the dNTP, 0.3 µM for forward and reverse primers (Table quantity of the DNA of these amplicons before the 2), 0.05 U/µL of AmpliTaqGold® polymerase (an ultra sequencing step of those samples, 1 µl of loading buffer pure and stable polymerase with proof reading activity) and 3 µl of the purified DNA of each cultivar was loaded and 5 µL of DNA template (25 ng/µl) per 100 µL of on a 2% (v/v) agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide reaction volume. Sterile-ddH2O was also added to the and visualized with UV light. Table (2): Primers used for targeted amplification strategy. NCBI Amplico Primer Ta Extension Locus name Primer sequence (5`→3`) accession n size Reference name (oC) time (min.) no. (bp) Cycl2-F 5`ATTCTTTTGGCTACTTGGACATCTTT3` Cycl2-R 5`AACCCTCAGCTGTGCAATCTG3` (Reale et AY847065 60 1 901 Cycl3-F 5`ATTTCAGATTGCACAGCTGAGG3` al., 2006) Cycloartenol synthase Cycl3-R 5`ATCCTGAGGAAATCATCTCCATTT3` Cyc2a-F 5`ATTCTTTTGGCTACTTGGACATCT3` Present AY847065 50 0.5 257 Cyc2a-R 5`GGAGATTGTAGCAATGTTGATATG3` study Lup-F 5`CTAACTCGATGGCCGTTTTCTAA3` (Reale et AY847066 60 1 501 Lupeol Lup-R 5`GCAACTCAAATGAATGAATCATGAT3` al., 2006) synthase Lup2-F 5`GCAACTCAAATGAATGAATC3` Present AY847066 50 0.5 ≈300 Lup2-R 5`AACTCATGTTTTGTAGGTG3` study Note: The sequences, Ta (anneling temperature), extension time used for PCR and expected amplicon sizes in the PCR are given. Cyc2a-F/R and Lup2- F/R primer pairs were designed by using PrimerExpress® 2.0 Software (Applied Biosystems) to amplify shorter fragments than those given by Cyclo2- F/R, Cyclo3-F/R and Lup-F/R and their PCR products will be used for the genotyping step. To check the uniqueness of the complementary DNA region against new primers, a BLASTn search (Altschul et al., 1990) was carried out. SNP Discovery: It was carried out based on the (LS) primers, Table 2, and on the sequencing of PCR amplification of DNA fragments using locus-specific products instantly from all five olive cultivars. -284- Genetic Fingerprinting… Rezq A. Basheer-Salimia et al. Sequencing was performed with one of the PCR primers Mix, 3 µL of previously cleaned up PCR product, 1 µL using BigDye® Terminator cycle sequencing in an ABI of 2 pM SNP primer (Table 3) and 1 µL sterile-ionized- ® Prism 310 Genetic Analyzer (Applied Biosystems). distil H2O. The mixture was incubated at 95°C for 25 Three methods; namely visual inspection, BioEdit cycles for 10 s, 50°C for 5 s, 60°C for 30 s and software (Hall, 1999) and SeqDoc software (Crowe, eventually at 4°C. The whole primer extension product 2005) were used to identify the polymorphisms among (10 µl) was mixed with 1 µL shrimp alkaline the sequencing traces obtained from Genetic Analyzer phosphatase (USB Corporation), incubated at 37°C for by aligning them against each other. 60 minutes and ultimately at 75°C for 15 minutes . SNP Genotyping Subsequently, 0.5 µL of the sample was blended with Genotyping of the cultivars’ SNPs was carried out in 0.5 µl of GeneScan™ -120 LIZ™ size standard and 9 µL 10 µl reactions.