Identification of AFLP markers related to tolerance to flooding stress in barley

According to the importance of studies of abiotic stress, present study was done in order to identify of molecular markers with significant association to flooding stress tolerance in barley. This study carried out using of AFLP markers and 40 barley genotypes. Generally 22 variables in both normal and flooded, eight characters including shoot dry weight, length, volume, wet weight, dry weight, leaf area, root diameter and density tolerance was assessed with six indicators (SSI, STI, GMP, TOL, YI and YSI). Seven primer combinations of EcoRI and MseI a total of 245 bands were produced, of which, 227 bands were polymorphic and had an average of 92.37 percent polymorphism. Three combinations E90-M160, E100-M160 and E90-M150 had higher values of genetic variation compared to other combinations and were more effective in distinguish of genotypes. Association analysis was performed using structure matrix and statistical models of GLM and MLM by using of TASSEL software for 22 variables. The MLM model in 5 percent probability level identified 87 markers related to evaluated traits. According to the results of association analysis in normal condition the highest of coefficient of determination was for E100M16027 with explanation of 32 percent of root diameter variation and for tolerance indices and stress condition the highest coefficient of determination were for E80M1501 and E100M15022 with 24 percent explanation of variation of GMP index and shoot dry weight respectively.