Joanna Kosinska, Andrzej Lewandowski , Wladyslaw Chalupka

Genetic variability of Scots pine maternal populations and their progenies

Kosinska J., Lewandowski A., Chalupka W. (2007). Genetic variability of Scots pine maternal populations and their progenies. Silva Fennica vol. 41 no. 1 article id 304. https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.304

Abstract

The genetic variability of Scots pine was investigated in six populations from Poland representing two maternal populations and their natural and artificial progenies. Thirteen enzyme systems controlled by 25 allozyme loci were analyzed using starch gel electrophoresis. Progeny populations maintained a high and similar level of genetic variation to that observed in the maternal populations. As expected, much closer genetic relationships were observed between maternal populations and their respective progeny than between the two maternal populations themselves. Progeny populations had the same major alleles, but differed in the number of rare alleles. Therefore, probably not all rare alleles were transferred from the maternal stands to the progenies. In addition, new rare alleles appeared in the progeny populations, possibly as a result of external pollen flow into the maternal populations.

Keywords
Pinus sylvestris L.; genetic variation; allozymes; gene conservation

Received 3 July 2006 Accepted 30 January 2007 Published 31 December 2007

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