Published online 20 May 2008
Published in Crop Sci 48:1080-1089 (2008)
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Diversity for AFLP and SSR in Natural Populations of Lotus corniculatus L. from Italy
Maria Luisa Savo Sardaroa,*,
Maroun Atallaha,
Elahe Tavakola,
Luigi Russib,* and
Enrico Porcedduc
a Programma Internazionale di Dottorato in Agrobiodiversità, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa, c/o ENEA CR Casaccia, Santa Maria di Galeria 00060 Rome, Italy
b Dipartimento di Biologia Applicata, Univ. degli Studi di Perugia, Borgo XX Giugno 74-06121 Perugia, Italy
c DABAC, Univ. degli Studi della Tuscia, Via S.C. de Lellis, 01100 Viterbo, Italy

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Figure 1. Example of simple sequence repeat banding patterns in Lotus corniculatus using the primer BM1397. The first lane is the DNA ladder.
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Figure 2. Representative acrylamide gel showing the amplified fragment length polymorphism pattern polymorphism in accessions of Lotus corniculatus using the E-AAT and M-GAG primer combination. Preitoni individuals, as indicated on the gel, were collected from south Italy.
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Figure 3. Unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic mean clustering of Jaccard genetic similarity coefficients of 88 individuals belonging to 11 Italian populations of Lotus corniculatus, as based on amplified fragment length polymorphism data.
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Figure 4. Unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic mean clustering of genetic distance coefficients (Kosman and Leonard) of 11 Italian populations of Lotus corniculatus, as based on simple sequence repeat data.
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Figure 5. Centroids of the 11 Italian populations of Lotus corniculatus, plotted according to the first two canonical discriminant functions.
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