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Investigating The Origin of Hazelnut (Corylus Avellana L.) Cultivars Using Chloroplast Microsatellites
Investigating The Origin of Hazelnut (Corylus Avellana L.) Cultivars Using Chloroplast Microsatellites
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Received: 14 July 2008 / Accepted: 12 January 2009 / Published online: 31 January 2009
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Abstract The place and time of European hazel Keywords Chlorotype Corylus avellana
(Corylus avellana L.) domestication is not clear, cpSSR Cultivar diffusion Cultivation
although it was already cultivated by the Romans. In Domestication Filbert
this study, 75 accessions from Spain, Italy, Turkey,
and Iran were analysed using 13 chloroplast micro-
satellite to investigate the origin and diffusion of Introduction
hazelnut cultivars. Four loci were polymorphic and
identified a total of four different chlorotypes. Their In Europe, two different Corylus species are present:
distribution was not uniform in each geographical the European hazel, C. avellana L., that has a wide
group. The most frequent chlorotype A was present in distribution, and the Turkish hazel, C. colurna L.,
all groups. An increase in chlorotype number and restricted to the Balkans, Romania, and northern
diversity from Spain eastward to Italy, Turkey, and Turkey (Thompson et al. 1996). The geographical
Iran was observed. Results suggest that some spread distribution of the European hazel extends from the
of cultivars occurred from East to West and that Mediterranean coast of North Africa northward to the
hazelnut cultivation was not introduced from the British Islands and the Scandinavian peninsula, and
eastern Mediterranean basin into Spain and southern eastward to the Ural Mountains of Russia, the
Italy by Greeks or Arabs. Moreover, the results Caucasus Mountains, Iran, and Lebanon (Kasapligil
suggest considerable exchange of germplasm 1972). It is the source of important cultivars in Europe
between Italy and Spain, probably by the Romans. and Turkey, which were selected over many centuries
Hazelnut appears to have been domesticated inde- from local wild populations (Trotter 1921; Tasias
pendently in three areas: the Mediterranean, Turkey, Valls 1975; Thompson et al. 1996). Turkey has long
and Iran. been the leading producer and exporter of hazelnuts,
accounting for about 71% of world production. Italy is
second with over 13%, the United States third with
4.1%, and Spain fourth with 2.8%. Azerbaijan, Iran,
Georgia, China, France, and Greece are other pro-
ducers (FAOstat 2008). About 90% of the world crop
P. Boccacci (&) R. Botta is used as kernels in the food industry, while the
Dipartimento di Colture Arboree, Università degli Studi di remaining 10% is sold in-shell for fresh consumption.
Torino, Via Leonardo da Vinci 44, 10095 Grugliasco,
Torino, Italy The present-day distribution of C. avellana L. was
e-mail: paolo.boccacci@unito.it established about 7,000 years B.P., as result of a
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postglacial recolonization process starting approxi- In recent years, the availability of nuclear micro-
mately 11,000 years earlier (Huntley and Birks 1983). satellite or simple sequence repeat (nSSR) markers in
During the most recent glaciation hazel was restricted C. avellana L. (Bassil et al. 2005a, b; Boccacci et al.
to glacial refugia in southern Europe, but low levels of 2005) provide new possibilities to investigate the
pollen were deposited in central Europe during the full breeding history of hazelnut cultivars. nSSR loci have
glacial period (Bennett et al. 1991). Huntley and Birks been used to fingerprint and to identify mistakes in
(1983) suggested that southern Italy and the area hazelnut accessions from several germplasm reposi-
around the Bay of Biscay (southwestern France) were tories (Botta et al. 2005; Gökirmak et al. 2008). These
the most important refugia. Between 10,000 and studies investigated genetic relationships among
9,000 years B.P. the amount of Corylus pollen found cultivars grown in important production areas,
across Europe sharply increased (http://www. identified accessions with identical fingerprints, and
pierroton.inra.fr/Cytofor/Maps/index.html). The most suggested the parentage for several cultivars
plausible explanation for this increase is a very rapid (Boccacci et al. 2006, 2008; Ghanbari et al. 2005;
spread of hazel (1,500 m/year) from these refugia Gökirmak et al. 2008). In particular, Boccacci et al.
(Huntley and Birks 1983; Birks 1989). Recent analysis (2006) and Gökirmak et al. (2008) concluded that
of chloroplast DNA variation (Palmé and Vendramin cultivars from Italy and Spain are genetically related.
2002) indicates a rapid expansion from one large On the contrary, Turkish cultivars constitute a
refugium in the Biscay area or from several scattered separate germplasm group, indicating little gene flow
refugia in western Europe into most of Europe, except between the eastern and western areas of the
southern-central Italy and the Balkans, and then a local Mediterranean basin.
expansion in the latter two areas. The chloroplast genome has a lower evolutionary
Nut dispersal during the postglacial recolonization rate than the nuclear genome. Although its inheri-
was caused by animals (small mammals and birds) tance is paternal in conifers (Vendramin and
and human migration. A prevalent opinion is that Ziegenhagen 1997), inheritance is maternal in angio-
Mesolithic tribes (10,000–6,000 years B.P.) could sperms (Dumolin et al. 1995; Arroyo-Garcı́a et al.
have aided, intentionally or more likely accidentally, 2002). Thus in angiosperms the chloroplast genome
the spread of hazel. However, there is no evidence can only be disseminated by seeds or cuttings.
that they attempted to propagate it (Tallantire 2002). Chloroplast SSR (cpSSR) markers have been devel-
In several Mesolithic archaeological findings, oped in recent years (Provan et al. 2001) and have
abundant nutshell fragments have been recorded, been used to investigate the origin and diffusion of
indicating that hazelnuts were cracked for consump- several fruit tree species, such as grape (Arroyo-
tion or some kind of nut-processing (Bakels 1991; Garcı́a et al. 2002; Imazio et al. 2005; Arroyo-Garcı́a
Kubiak-Martens 1999). Most likely the expansion of et al. 2006) and olive (Breton et al. 2006).
the hazelnut distribution was due to chance spread In the present work, a total of 75 genotypes from four
during the preparation of ‘‘hazelnut meals’’ by different geographical regions were analysed using
migratory Mesolithic people (Kuster 2000). During cpSSR markers to investigate the history of hazelnut
the spread of agriculture in Europe, C. avellana L. cultivation and diffusion. Moreover, the usefulness of
was one of the species domesticated and cultivated cpSSRs as molecular markers to study genetic rela-
(Forni 1990; Zohary and Hopf 2001). Archaeologists tionships among hazelnut cultivars was evaluated.
have repeatedly retrieved nuts, kernels, and shell
remains from many Neolithic, Bronze Age, Classical,
and Medieval sites all over Europe (Bakels 1991; Materials and methods
Russel-White 1995; Arobba et al. 2003; Cleary 2003;
Peña-Chocarro et al. 2005; Šoštarić et al. 2006; Plant material and DNA extraction
Schmidl et al. 2007). Nevertheless, where and when
the domestication of C. avellana L. was started is not Seventy-five hazelnut accessions were sampled in
yet clear; although it was cultivated by the Romans field collections assembled by the Dipartimento di
(Trotter 1921; White 1970; Vaughan and Geissler Colture Arboree of Torino (Italy); Cooperativa San
1997). Colombano (Genova, Italy); Istituto di Frutti-
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viticoltura of Piacenza (Italy); Consiglio per la [160 mM (NH4)2SO4, 670 mM Tris–HCl (pH 8.8 at
Ricerca e Sperimentazione in Agricoltura (CRA) of 25C), 0.1% Tween-20], and 0.5 U BioTaq DNA
Roma and Caserta (Italy); National Clonal Germ- polymerase (Bioline, London, UK). All cpSSR
plasm Repository (NCGR) of Corvallis (Oregon, amplifications were performed using the following
USA), Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroali- temperature profiles: 3 min of denaturation at 95C,
mentàries (IRTA) of Constantı́ (Tarragona, Spain), then 28 cycles of 30 s of denaturation at 95C, 45 s of
and Seed and Plant Improvement Institute (SPII) of annealing at 55C, and 90 s of extension at 72C; and
Kamal-Abad (Iran). Trueness-to-type of the acces- a final 10 min extension step at 72C. Amplified
sions was previously verified by Boccacci et al. fragments were loaded onto a polyacrylamide gel and
(2005, 2008) and Ghanbari et al. (2005) using nSSR run on a semi-automated ABI-PRISM 377 sequencer
markers. The cultivars were assigned to four groups (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, Calif., USA).
on the basis of their country of origin (Table 1). Results of the run were processed with Genescan
Cultivars with a direct parental relationship were software and allele sizes (in base pairs, bp) were
excluded, as were synonyms. (i) Group Spain is estimated using a GeneScan-350 ROX size standard
composed by 33 cultivars grown in the province of (Applied Biosystems).
Tarragona (Catalonia, northeastern Spain), except Numbers of chlorotypes (N) were directly esti-
‘Casina’, which is from Asturias (northern coast of mated for each cultivar group. An unbiased estimate
Spain); (ii) Group Italy includes 22 cultivars grown in of the
chlorotype diversity was calculated as:
different Italian regions: Piedmont and Liguria H ¼ n=ðn 1Þ 1 Rg2i , where gi is the fre-
(northwestern Italy), Latium (central Italy), and quency of the i-th chlorotype and n is the number
Campania and Sicily (southern Italy); (iii) Group of individuals analysed in each cultivar groups (Nei
Turkey is represented by ten cultivars of Turkish 1987). A chlorotype median network was constructed
origin, seven grown in the Black Sea coastal prov- using the program Network v. 4.5 (Bandelt et al.
inces of northern Turkey, and three cultivated in 1999).
Greece (‘Extra Ghiaghli’, ‘Sivri Ghiaghli’, and
‘Tombul Ghiaghli’); (iv) Group Iran is composed of
10 accessions from Iran. Results
Total genomic DNA was extracted from 0.2 g of
leaves or immature catkins using the modified cpSSR polymorphism and chlorotype definition
procedure described by Thomas et al. (1993) in a
Tris–EDTA–NaCl buffer containing 0.25 M NaCl, In the 75 hazelnut genotypes, nine of 13 cpSSR loci
0.2 M Tris pH 7.6, 2.5% PVP 40,000, 0.05 M were monomorphic. Low levels of variation were
Na2EDTA, and 0.1% b-mercaptoethanol. After puri- detected with the other four loci (Table 2). Locus
fication, the DNA was suspended in 50 ll Tris– ccmp2 showed three different size variants, whereas
EDTA buffer. two variants were found at loci ccmp3, ccmp4, and
ccmp10. The allele variations differed by increments
cpSSR analysis and data elaboration of 1 bp due to variation in the number of A or T
residues within mononucleotide repeats. The same set
A total of thirteen cpSSR loci were analysed. Eight of cpSSR loci was also polymorphic in 26 natural
loci (ccmp1, ccmp2, ccmp3, ccmp4, ccmp5, ccmp6, hazel populations (Palmé and Vendramin 2002).
ccmp7, ccmp10) were described by Weising and Thus, ccmp2, ccmp3, ccmp4, and ccmp10 are useful
Gardner (1999), and five loci (cmcs1, cmcs2, cmcs4, loci for studying genetic variability in C. avellana L.
cmcs11, cmcs13) were described by Sebastiani et al. Considering the allele variants at the four loci, four
(2004). The primer pairs were those designed by different chlorotypes were detected (Table 3) and
these authors for Nicotiana tabacum L. and Casta- their relationships were analysed under a network
nea sativa Mill., respectively. PCR amplification was model (Fig. 1). The chlorotype network indicated the
carried out using a reaction mixture (20 ll) consisting minimum number of evolutionary events separating
of 50 ng DNA template, 0.5 lM of each primer, each chlorotype. Chlorotype A was the most frequent
200 lM dNTPs, 2 mM MgCl2, 2 ll 109 NH4 buffer in the 75 cultivars. Chlorotypes B and D were
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Table 1 List of accessions, germplasm collections, and chlorotypes observed in 75 hazelnut cultivars
Cultivar Collectiona Chlorotype Cultivar Collectiona Chlorotype
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Table 1 continued
Cultivar Collectiona Chlorotype Cultivar Collectiona Chlorotype
A 130 214 119 117 108 98 154 108 103 134 108 224 118
B 130 214 118 117 108 98 154 108 103 134 108 224 118
C 130 215 118 117 108 98 154 108 103 134 108 224 118
D 130 216 119 116 108 98 154 107 103 134 108 224 118
Only four loci (ccmp2, ccmp3, ccmp4, and ccmp10) were polymorphic and identified four chlorotypes
Table 3 Chlorotype
Group Spain Group Italy Group Turkey Group Iran Total
distribution in each
geographical group (with n 33 22 10 10 75
chlorotype frequency in
parentheses) Chlorotype A 33 (1.000) 20 (0.909) 4 (0.400) 1 (0.100) 58 (0.773)
Chlorotype B – – 6 (0.600) 1 (0.100) 7 (0.094)
Chlorotype C – – – 8 (0.800) 8 (0.108)
n = number of samples; Chlorotype D – 2 (0.091) – – 2 (0.027)
N = number of N 1 2 2 3 4
chlorotypes; H 0.000 0.173 0.533 0.378 0.391
H = chlorotype diversity
associated with chlorotype A, while chlorotype C was respectively, and were absent in Spanish and Italian
related only to chlorotype B. The intermediate cultivars (Table 3).
relationship of chlorotype A to the others suggests In order to evaluate the chlorotype distribution in
that it is likely the ancestral chlorotype of hazelnut each analysed group, a chlorotype diversity index (H)
cultivars. was calculated (Table 3). H values were zero in the
Spanish group, and low in the Italian group. On the
Chlorotype variation and distribution contrary, high H values were observed in groups
in the geographical groups Turkey (H = 0.533) and Iran (H = 0.378), although
a relatively fewer accessions from these groups were
The chlorotype distribution was not uniform in the analysed. These data showed that H increases from
four geographical groups (Table 3). Chlorotype A West to East in the Mediterranean basin, unlike what
was present in all groups with a decreasing frequency was observed in grapevine by Imazio et al. (2005).
from Spain eastward to Italy, Turkey, and Iran
(Table 3). It was observed in all 33 Spanish and 20
of 22 Italian accessions. ‘Tonda bianca’ and ‘Tonda Discussion
rossa’, both of which are cultivated in Avellino
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rarest chlorotype D (Table 1). Chlorotypes B and C hypothesized on the basis of pollen records (Huntley
were mainly present in the groups Turkey and Iran, and Birks 1983; Birks 1989) and a recent analysis of
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