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              ground fresh leave tissue was suspended in a 1.5 ml
            
            
              centrifugal tube with preheated 750 µl CTAB. The
            
            
              suspension was shaken up, kept at 65
            
            
              ℃
            
            
              for 45 min,
            
            
              and then centrifuged with 12 000 rpm for 10 min. The
            
            
              supernatant was abandoned later. Extracted by
            
            
              chloroform isoamylalcohol (24:1) twice and
            
            
              precipitation with two-thirds volume of isopropanol
            
            
              under
            
            
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              4
            
            
              ℃
            
            
              , and then centrifuged at 12 000 rpm for 10
            
            
              min. The pellet was washed with 70% ethanol twice.
            
            
              Then the pellets were air dried. DNA was dissolved in
            
            
              50 µl deionized water. The DNA quality was
            
            
              inspected by 1% agarose gel electrophoresis and
            
            
              stored at
            
            
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                3.3 AFLP analysis
              
            
            
              AFLP was performed on the basis of the protocol
            
            
              introduced by Vos et al. (1995) with a minor
            
            
              modifications (Shi, 2006). Double digested the genomic
            
            
              DNA with
            
            
              
                Eco
              
            
            
              R I/
            
            
              
                Mse
              
            
            
              I. The enzymed DNA was
            
            
              ligated to the adaptors which had the
            
            
              
                Eco
              
            
            
              R I/
            
            
              
                Mse
              
            
            
              I
            
            
              restriction sites at both sides. The preselective
            
            
              amplification was performed with non-selective
            
            
              
                Eco
              
            
            
              R
            
            
              I/
            
            
              
                Mse
              
            
            
              I primer combination. The PCR products were
            
            
              diluted 10
            
            
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              fold with TE and used to be template for
            
            
              selective amplification. The selective amplification
            
            
              primer combination was
            
            
              
                Eco
              
            
            
              R+3/
            
            
              
                Mse
              
            
            
              l+3 (Table 2).
            
            
              The selective amplification PCR products were added
            
            
              with the same volume of loading buffer. Set in 95
            
            
              ℃
            
            
              for 3 min for denature. Put on the ice immediately.
            
            
              Draw 5.5 µl to% (w/v) polyacrylamide gel containing
            
            
              which was preheated for 45 min at 55W. The gels
            
            
              were silver stained (Lu et al., 2001) and placed in the
            
            
              air to dry.
            
            
              
                3.4 Data analysis
              
            
            
              All distinct bands on AFLP gel were identified and
            
            
              wrote down according to their position independently
            
            
              for each cultivar and primer combination. A matrix
            
            
              was constructed with all these data. The polymorphic
            
            
              rate (P) and Polymorphism information content (PIC)
            
            
              values were calculated as described by Botstein et al
            
            
              (1980). GenAlEx 6.4 software (Rod Peakall.
            
            
              http://www.anu.edu.au/BoZo/GenAlEx/new_version.p
            
            
              hp) was used to calculate the amount of index of
            
            
              genetic diversity including GS (Genetic similarity),
            
            
              GD (Genetic distance) and AMOVA. Cluster analysis
            
            
              was conducted based on the UPGMA (Unweighted
            
            
              Pair Group Mean Average) method with MEGA4
            
            
              (http://www.megasoftware.net/).
            
            
              
                Authors’ contributions
              
            
            
              Weidong Shi fulfilled major part of this paper, including varieties collection
            
            
              and lines selection and cultivation, experiment design and accomplishment,
            
            
              data analysis and manuscript preparation. Ruikui Huang participated in
            
            
              germplasm collection. Shengmao Zhou participated in germplasm collection
            
            
              and experiment design. Faqian Xiong gave great assistance to experimental
            
            
              accomplishment. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
            
            
              
                Acknowledgements
              
            
            
              This study was jointly supported by Agricultural Science Institute of
            
            
              Guangxi Basic Research Project (200805Z) and (0815011
            
            
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              1) and Natural
            
            
              Science Foundation of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
            
            
              (2010GXNSFA013084). Mention of trade names or commercial products in
            
            
              this paper is solely for the purpose of providing specific information and
            
            
              does not imply recommendation or endorsement by authors or institutes or
            
            
              university involved in this study.
            
            
              
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