Author(s)

Edith Salazar-Villa¹, Lilia Alcaraz-Meléndez², Josefina León-Félix¹, José Basilio Heredia¹, Federico Soto-Landeros³, Veronica Pérez-Rubio¹, Eduardo Sánchez-Valdez¹, Miguel Angulo Angulo-Escalante^1*

¹Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C. (CIAD), Coordinación Culiacán, Sinaloa, México.
²Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C (CIBNOR), La Paz, Baja California Sur, México.
³Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Guasave, Guasave, Sinaloa, México.

Seven accessions of Jatropha platyphylla were evaluated for their phenotypic traits and genetic diversity using inter-simple sequence repeats (ISSRs). Cluster analyses with nine traits were performed: number of branches per plant; fruit per bunch; bunch per branch; bunch per plant; total seed production; total fruit production, protein content, oil content, and fatty acid profile. Genotypes from Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico (PR11) yielded the highest values in all traits. The correlation analysis of the quantitative traits showed high correlations between seed and total fruit production (r = 0.99). Unsaturated linoleic acid was the most abundant fatty acid (57.64% - 52.39%). Within a genetic improvement program, two of the most important variables to be considered are oil content and phenotypic characteristics of the plant. J. platyphylla has shown viable selection traits that provide a possibility of producing interspecies hybrids and giving them added value. ISSRs primers generated variable banding patterns that were found to be polymorphic; the polymorphic information content (PIC) of these loci ranged from 0.21 to 0.45 with an average of 0.34. The unweighted pair group method (UPGMA) cluster analysis of the data showed the formation of three groups, where the most divergent accession pair was the genotype from Quelite (QP11) and Rosario (PR11).

Fatty Acids, Oil, Molecular Markers, Polymorphism, Plant Breeding

Salazar-Villa, E. , Alcaraz-Meléndez, L. , León-Félix, J. , Heredia, J. , Soto-Landeros, F. , Pérez-Rubio, V. , Sánchez-Valdez, E. and Angulo-Escalante, M. (2021) Genetic Diversity in Jatropha platyphylla Accessions Based on Morphological Traits and Inter-Simple Sequence Repeats Molecular Markers. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 12, 1658-1672. doi: 10.4236/ajps.2021.1211116.