The diversity of tea germplasm resources and genetic relationship of'Tieguanyin'-derived varieties in Anxi,Fujian,China
In order to better protect,evaluate and utilize Anxi tea germplasm resources,the genetic diversity of Anxi tea germplasm resources and the genetic relationship of'Tieguanyin'-derived varieties were analyzed by single nucle-otide polymorphism(SNP)molecular marker technique.Principal coordinate analysis,hierarchical clustering tree a-nalysis,population structure analysis and genetic distance analysis were carried out.The DNA fingerprinting of'Tieguanyin'and its derived varieties were also constructed,and their genetic similarity coefficients were calculat-ed.The results showed that a total of 53 high polymorphic loci suitable for genotyping of Anxi tea germplasm re-sources were screened out.The average observed heterozygosity was 0.322,and the average expected heterozygosity was 0.281,indicating that Anxi tea plant germplasm resources had rich genetic diversity.The genetic distance be-tween tea populations in the four townships of Anxi was0.068-0.269.The tested samples could be divided into two groups.Group I mainly included tea plant germplasm resources from Xiping,Huqiu and Hushang,with frequent ex-changes among germplasm resources.Group Ⅱ was mainly composed of wild-type landrace tea germplasm resources in Futian,and the tea plant germplasm resources in Futian were relatively concentrated and independent.DNA fin-gerprinting could accurately identify'Tieguanyin'and its derived varieties.'Tieguanyin'-derived varieties had rich diversity,among which'Tieguanyin'had a large genetic similarity coefficient with'Jinmudan','Zimeigui'and'Xinxuan 211'.In summary,the diversity of tea plant germplasm resources in Anxi County was rich,'Jinmudan','Zimeigui'and'Xinxuan 211'had higher genetic similarity with'Tieguanyin'.