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Abstract
Corn is a widely grown cereal crop that serves as a model plant for genetic and evolutionary studies. However, the heterosis pattern of sweet corn remains unclear. Here, we analysed the genetic diversity and population structure of 514 sweet corn inbred lines and 181 field corn inbred lines. The population structure study enabled the classification of sweet corn into four groups: temperate sweet corns 1 and 2, tropical sweet corn, and subtropical sweet corn, in addition to the temperate and tropical field corn groups. Temperate sweet corn groups 1 and 2 were merged into the temperate sweet corn cluster in the phylogenetic trees. Principal component analysis divided sweet corn into four groups: temperate groups 1 and 2, tropical, and subtropical. Sweet corn exhibited lower levels of genetic diversity, polymorphism information content, and minor allele frequency than field corn. The average genetic distances and differentiation coefficients between inbreds within each sweet corn group were lower than those within field corn groups, indicating a relatively narrow genetic base in sweet corn. Taken together, the 514 sweet corn inbred lines can be divided into four groups: temperate 1, temperate 2, tropical, and subtropical. The classification of sweet corn groups in this study provides a reference for the breeding of sweet corn.
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11032-024-01533-1.
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Molecular Breeding is an international journal publishing papers on applications of plant molecular biology, i.e., research most likely leading to practical applications. The practical applications might relate to the Developing as well as the industrialised World and have demonstrable benefits for the seed industry, farmers, processing industry, the environment and the consumer.
All papers published should contribute to the understanding and progress of modern plant breeding, encompassing the scientific disciplines of molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, physiology, pathology, plant breeding, and ecology among others.
Molecular Breeding welcomes the following categories of papers: full papers, short communications, papers describing novel methods and review papers. All submission will be subject to peer review ensuring the highest possible scientific quality standards.
Molecular Breeding core areas:
Molecular Breeding will consider manuscripts describing contemporary methods of molecular genetics and genomic analysis, structural and functional genomics in crops, proteomics and metabolic profiling, abiotic stress and field evaluation of transgenic crops containing particular traits. Manuscripts on marker assisted breeding are also of major interest, in particular novel approaches and new results of marker assisted breeding, QTL cloning, integration of conventional and marker assisted breeding, and QTL studies in crop plants.
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