%0 Journal Article
%T Morphological and Molecular (SSR) Analysis of Old Apple Cultivars
%A Ildik車 KIR芍LY
%A R車bert REDECZKI
%A 谷va ERD谷LYI
%A Magdolna T車TH
%J Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca
%D 2012
%I University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca
%X Investigations were made on the morphological traits of the flowers, shoots and fruits of five apple cultivars in the Batul group and four in the S車v芍ri Group, in order to prepare UPOV (Union Internationale pour la Protection des Obtentions V谷g谷tales) descriptions of these cultivars. Marker analysis involving 12 microsatellite primers was performed to identify 13 genotypes. All the analytical methods indicated that ＆Z ld batul＊ could be clearly distinguished from the other ＆Batul＊ selections, suggesting that it is an independent cultivar distantly related to ＆Batul＊. Within the S車v芍ri Group, the cultivars could be clearly distinguished from each other on the basis of morphological and molecular analysis. The variants of ＆Beregi s車v芍ri＊ collected in the United Kingdom and in Sub-Carpathia cannot be considered to be the same cultivar. The genotype preserved in the UK National Apple Collection at Brogdale should be considered to be an unknown cultivar. The present examinations demonstrated that a combination of morphological and genetic analyses provides a more reliable identification of apple genotypes than pomological descriptions or genetic analysis alone.
%U http://www.notulaebotanicae.ro/index.php/nbha/article/view/7682