Characterization of SSRs and development of EST-SSR markers in transcriptome of Xanthoceras sorbifolia Bunge
[Objective] High-throughput sequencing technology was used to analyze the distribution types and characteristics of SSRs in transcriptome of Xanthoceras sorbifolia and EST-SSR markers were developed to provide basis for genetic diversity and evolutionary origin analysis of X.sorbifolia.[Method] The number,distribution characteristics,frequency of occurrence and mean distribution distance of SSRs screened by MISA from 51 867 unigenes of X.sorbifolia were counted and analyzed.Sixty EST-SSR primers were designed by on line software Prime 3 and 16 germplasms of X.sorbifolia from seven provinces of China combined with 6% modified polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis were used for polymorphism screening of these markers.The number of alleles,observed heterozygosity and expected heterozygosity of these markers were analyzed using Popgene 32.[Result] A total of 6 707 SSRs were identified from the X.sorbifolia unigenes.The average frequency of occurrence,distribution distance and average SSR length of these SSRs were 12.93%,5.38 kb and 17.30 bp.The frequencies of occurrence of dinucleotide and trinucleotide repeats were 6.24% and 4.93%,respectively.Among the 60 markers,47 amplified the targeted fragments and 14 markers appeared to be polymorphic with a total of 52 alleles,the observed and expected heterozygosity ranged from 0 to 0.813 and 0.353 to 0.762,respectively.The PIC values varied from 0.283 to 0.701.[Conclusion] The SSR repeat units in transcriptome of X.sorbifolia were mainly dinucleotide and trinucleotide repeats and the 14 EST-SSR markers developed in this work are useful for genetic diversity a-nalysis in X.sorbi folia.