Genetic Variability of Oil Palm in Mexico: An Assessment Based on Microsatellite Markers

Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) has become the largest source of vegetable oil in world. It is known that all existing genotypes this species are related, so their genetic variability considered to be low. In Mexico, plantations located southeast country, and they established with different origins seeds, which caused poor yields resulted need establish a improvement program. Therefore, study, extent diversity among 151 accessions from producing regions Mexico was assessed twenty simple sequence repeats (SSRs) seven random amplified microsatellite (RAM) markers. The markers utilized proved useful revealing high variability, total 1218 708 alleles detected polymorphic information content (PIC) 0.96 0.91 for RAM SSR, respectively. distance collected ranged between 31% 82% similarity. Accessions Tabasco Veracruz presented greatest smallest diversity, These results can allow breeding strategies crop Mexico.