Studies on Genetic Selection to Produce New Genotypes of Mung bean (Vigna Radiata L.) by Gamma Rays and SCoT Marker

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Agriculture Botany, Department, Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University Cairo, Egypt

2 Department of Agricultural Plant, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University Cairo, Egypt

3 Genetic Origins Department, Field Crop Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt

Abstract

A power of genetic selection is for producing new pure strains of interest species. The interest genes that are specifically expressed must be identified to develop the criterion of selection.  The short period of Mung bean development could adapt to a broad sense of different factors such as agro- and eco-systems, plant rotation, plantation, and variety of germplasm. Three field experiments were carried out under the condition of Egyptian soil between Branch of Genetics, Department of Agricultural Plant, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo, Al-Azhar University and Genetic Origins Department Research, Field Crops Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Bahteem Station, Qalyubia, Egypt on Mung bean. The genetic improvement and cultivars production of four strains of Mung bean was studied using gamma rays through selection and molecular studies techniques. The interaction between Mung bean strains and exposure to a dose of 40Gy of gamma rays had a significant effect on the characteristics of plant height (cm), number of branches/plant, number of pods/plant, number of seeds/pod, Pod length (cm), number of seeds/plant and total protein (%) at the level of significance (P< 0.05). The present research can provide the information of morphological and molecular characters of Mung bean. It is hoped that these finding are useful in new Genotypes confirmation. The position of bands by SCoT will provide the characters of identification of this plant.

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