Utilization of Genetic Diversity on Establishing Chinese Soybean （G.max0 Core Collection

Genetic diversity plays a very important role in establishing core collection.In this study,A total of 405 Chinese soybean accessions was selected from the preliminary core collection,which had 5 different ecotypes from three cultivation regions,including northeastern spring sowing soybean(NSpSS),huanghuai summer sowing soybean(HSuSS),southern spring sowing soybean(SSpSS),southern summer sowing soybean(SSuSS),southern autumn sowing soybean(SAuSS).The genetic diversities and genetic relationship of five ecotypes were analyzed at DNA level by using SSR markers in order to provide information for establishemnt of Chinese soybean core collection.A set of 67 SSR primers were used to analyze these accessions,and detected 502 alleles with averaged 7.49 alleles per locus.SAuSS appeared to be the highest number of alleles,HSuSS had the biggest genetic diversity indexes and NSpSS were lowest for both numbers of alleles and genetic diversity indexes among 5 ecotypes.Since five ecotypes differentiated obviously,various sampling strategy for establishing core collection should be adaped for different ecotypes based on the number of alleles and genetic diversity indexes.