title: Use of molecular markers to differentiate between commercial strains of the button mushroom Agaricus bisporus.
abstract: Agaricus bisporus is an edible basidiomycete cultivated industrially for food production. Different spawn and mushroom producers use genetically related A. bisporus strains frequently marketed as different products. In this paper we show that the use of suitable molecular markers reveals the high level of genetic homology of commercial strains of A. bisporus, and allows, at the same time, to distinguish between them. In the course of this work, a molecular marker potentially linked to the agronomic character 'mushroom weight' has been identified by bulked segregant analysis.
authors.affiliation: Departmento de Producción Agraria, Universidad Publica de Navarra, 31006 pamplona Spain. lramirez@unavarra.es
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ramírez
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Muez
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alfonso
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: García Barrenechea
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Alfonso
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Pisabarro
mesh_terms: D000364:Agaricus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D017931:DNA Primers; D015342:DNA Probes; D005819:Genetic Markers; D014644:Genetic Variation; D016533:Mycological Typing Techniques; D009841:Oligonucleotides; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D015342:DNA Probes; D005819:Genetic Markers; D009841:Oligonucleotides