Table 3. Results of genetic structure, clonal diversity and pedigree analysis conducted in four populations of Prunus serotina. | |||||||||||||
Population | NG | NR | A | HO | HE | FIS | Range of genet size |
No of polycormic individuals |
Average number basal resprouts |
Clonal diversity (R) | % HSs | % FSs | |
RS | RS + BR | ||||||||||||
R | 78 | 109 | 9.125 (1.125) | 0.619 (0.077) | 0.693 (0.059) | 0.137*** (0.056) | 2–13 | 0 | 0 | 0.713 | 0.713 | 5.39 | 0.43 |
Z_1 | 164 | 180 | 10.625 (1.546) | 0.681 (0.046) | 0.691 (0.038) | 0.019*** (0.021) | 2–4 | 2 | 2.00 | 0.911 | 0.890 | 0 | 0.17 |
Z_2 | 437 | 446 | 10.00 (1.615) | 0.650 (0.035) | 0.657 (0.031) | 0.013*** (0.012) | 2 | 28 | 2.32 | 0.979 | 0.854 | 3.77 | 0.94 |
Z_3 | 201 | 205 | 11.12 (1.288) | 0.606 (0.056) | 0.674 (0.044) | 0.108*** (0.047) | 2 | 34 | 3.18 | 0.980 | 0.719 | 4.16 | 0.05 |
NG – number of genets, NR – number of ramets, A – average number of alleles per locus, HO – observed heterozygosity, HE – expected heterozygosity, FIS – inbreeding coefficient, SE in parenthesis, R – clonal diversity, RS – root suckers, BR – basal resprouts, % HSs – half-sibs, % FSs – full-sibs, *** – significance at 0.001 |