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Characterisation of apple germplasm from on-farm collections located in the municipality Stari Grad, Sarajevo

Ten microsatellite markers used in a previous study on the autochthonous apple germplasm in Bosnia and Herzegovina managed to differentiate the autochthonous apple cultivars from the international ones. The molecular data also allowed the discrimination between autochthonous apple accessions introduced during Ottoman Empire and those brought to this country during the Austria-Hungary rule over Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this study the same SSR primers were used to examine 31 apple accessions from on-farm collections located in the Municipality Stari Grad, Sarajevo. A number of new alleles that were not amplified in the previous study were detected. Among the analysed accessions several homonyms and synonyms were detected. Some of the apple genotypes were in fact international, commercial cultivars, while many others can be considered autochthonous. We propose a wider regional study, using the same methodology, which might yield interesting results from the aspect of plant genetic resources.

Microsatellite; apple; plant genetic resources

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