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Characterization of species and vegetative clones of Dioscorea food yams using isoelectric focussing of peroxidase and acid phosphatase isoenzymes

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C.T. Twyford
Unit For Advanced Propagation Systems, Department of Agriculture, Horticulture and the Environment, Wye College, University of London, Wye, Ashford, Kent. TN25 SAH, UK
A.M. Viana
Unit For Advanced Propagation Systems, Department of Agriculture, Horticulture and the Environment, Wye College, University of London, Wye, Ashford, Kent. TN25 SAH, UK
A.C. James
Unit For Advanced Propagation Systems, Department of Agriculture, Horticulture and the Environment, Wye College, University of London, Wye, Ashford, Kent. TN25 SAH, UK
S.H. Mantell
Unit For Advanced Propagation Systems, Department of Agriculture, Horticulture and the Environment, Wye College, University of London, Wye, Ashford, Kent. TN25 SAH, UK
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Keywords

Dioscorea alata clones
Dioscorea esculenta
Dioscorea cayenensis/D.rotundata
Dioscorea bulbifera
Peroxidase
Acid phosphatase
lsoenzymes
lsoelectric focussing
Yam germplasm

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Characterization of species and vegetative clones of Dioscorea food yams using isoelectric focussing of peroxidase and acid phosphatase isoenzymes. (1990). Tropical Agriculture, 67(4). https://journals.sta.uwi.edu/ojs/index.php/ta/article/view/1828
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Abstract

A technique for the isoelectric focussing of soluble peroxidase and acid phosphatase isoenzymes of yams is described. It was found suitable for the positive identification of shoot culture materials of the four yam species, Dioscorea alata, D. cayenensis/D.rotundata, D. esculenta and D. bulbifera. It was sufficiently sensitive to detect differences between four clones of D. alata which were otherwise difficult to distinguish with certainty on the basis of morphological characteristics alone. The described method would be also suitable for the positive identification of somatic hybrids obtained between some of the D. alata clones and the three other species of yam following protoplast fusion and the regeneration of hybrid plants from microcalluses.
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