Vitis vinifera ssp. silvestris, the spontaneous subspecies of V. vinifera L., is believed to be the ancestor of present grapevine cultivars. In this work, polymorphism at 13 SSR loci was investigated to answer the following key question: are wild plants (i) true silvestris, (ii) hybrids between wild and cultivated plants or (iii) or 'escapes' from vineyards? In particular, the objective of the present study was to identify truly wild individuals and to search for possible hybridization events. The study was performed in Sardinia, the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, which is characterized by a large and well-described number of both grape cultivars and wild populations. This region was ideal for the study because of its spatial isolation and, consequently, limited contamination from outside material. The results of this study show that domesticated and wild grapevine germplasms are genetically divergent and thus are real silvestris. Pure lineages (both domesticated and wild) show very high average posterior probabilities of assignment to their own clusters, with a low level of introgression. © 2010 German Botanical Society and The Royal Botanical Society of the Netherlands.

Zecca, G., DE MATTIA, F., Lovicu, G., Labra, M., Sala, F., Grassi, F. (2010). Wild grapevine: silvestris, hybrids or cultivar escaped from vineyards? Morphological and molecular evidence in Sardinia. PLANT BIOLOGY, 12(3), 558-562 [10.1111/j.1438-8677.2009.00226.x].

Wild grapevine: silvestris, hybrids or cultivar escaped from vineyards? Morphological and molecular evidence in Sardinia

Zecca, G;DE MATTIA, FABRIZIO;LABRA, MASSIMO;Grassi, F.
2010

Abstract

Vitis vinifera ssp. silvestris, the spontaneous subspecies of V. vinifera L., is believed to be the ancestor of present grapevine cultivars. In this work, polymorphism at 13 SSR loci was investigated to answer the following key question: are wild plants (i) true silvestris, (ii) hybrids between wild and cultivated plants or (iii) or 'escapes' from vineyards? In particular, the objective of the present study was to identify truly wild individuals and to search for possible hybridization events. The study was performed in Sardinia, the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, which is characterized by a large and well-described number of both grape cultivars and wild populations. This region was ideal for the study because of its spatial isolation and, consequently, limited contamination from outside material. The results of this study show that domesticated and wild grapevine germplasms are genetically divergent and thus are real silvestris. Pure lineages (both domesticated and wild) show very high average posterior probabilities of assignment to their own clusters, with a low level of introgression. © 2010 German Botanical Society and The Royal Botanical Society of the Netherlands.
Articolo in rivista - Articolo scientifico
Grapevine, Sardinia; SSR, Biodiversity
English
2010
12
3
558
562
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Zecca, G., DE MATTIA, F., Lovicu, G., Labra, M., Sala, F., Grassi, F. (2010). Wild grapevine: silvestris, hybrids or cultivar escaped from vineyards? Morphological and molecular evidence in Sardinia. PLANT BIOLOGY, 12(3), 558-562 [10.1111/j.1438-8677.2009.00226.x].
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