Codonopsis lanceolata is an herbaceous perennial plant. It is predominantly cultivated in East Asia, and is used as a medicinal plant as well as a vegetable. However, there is a lack of research about genetic studies of C. lanceolata. Therefore, we se...
Codonopsis lanceolata is an herbaceous perennial plant. It is predominantly cultivated in East Asia, and is used as a medicinal plant as well as a vegetable. However, there is a lack of research about genetic studies of C. lanceolata. Therefore, we sequenced genomic DNA using next generation sequencing (NGS) and searched the simple sequence repeats (SSRs) for marker development in C. lanceolata. A total of 250,455 SSRs were identified and dinucleotides and trinucleotides accounted for the majority of all the SSRs. A total of 26,334 primer sets were designed from dinucleotide to octanucleotide motifs. We investigated 2,626 SSRs (trinucleotide to pentanucleotide motifs) and found 573 SSRs showed in silico polymorphism. One-hundred seventy-seven SSR primer sets were selected to confirm that the 573 SSRs showed polymorphism in silico. As a result, 160 primer sets amplified expected amplicons and all of them showed polymorphism. From the results of genotyping using 39 SSR markers, the number of alleles ranged from 2 to 13, and the mean value of PIC was 0.54. In addition, 33 SSR markers were applied to 26 C. lanceolata collections (95 individual plants), and genetic diversity and population structure analysis were performed. Genetic relationship analysis showed that C. lanceolata collected from South Korea were not grouped by collection sites and showed genetic diversity. The results of population structure analysis showed that the members of most of the C. lanceolata collections were not grouped into one population and were considered an admixture. Consequently, we developed SSR markers from C. lanceolata that were polymorphic enough to analyze genetic diversity even though the markers did not distinguish the C. lanceolata by collection sites.