Esterase polymorphism marking cultivars of Manihot esculenta, Crantz

• Autor(a) principal: Resende,Adriana Gazoli
• Data de Publicação: 2004
• Outros Autores: Vidigal Filho,Pedro Soares, Machado,Maria de Fátima P. S.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132004000300003
• topic: Cassava; isozymes; esterases; Manihot esculenta; cultivar-specific isoesterases

Esterase isozymes were used to detected substrate-preference polymorphism in twenty cultivars of Manihot esculenta, and to show cultivar-specific variation of this species. A relatively complex extraction solution of proteins from leaves was needed to show a larger number of esterase isozymes. Similarity between cultivars from six groups ranged from 51 to 96%. The cultivars identified by the same name seemed to be biochemically different regarding esterase isozymes. Esterase isozyme electrophoretic patterns could, therefore, be used to discriminate the cultivars identified by the same name, and to monitor the vegetative propagation of cultivars maintained in the germplasm collection. In breeding strategies, isoesterase analysis could be used to avoid intercrossing between the similar genotypes.