Molecular profiles of retrotransposon based length polymorphism in Amarathus cruentus L. variety Pribina grown under cadmium treatment

Abstract

During evolution, plants have developed complex mechanisms to overcome biotic and abiotic stresses. Studying the interactions between heavy metals and plants, especially at the molecular-genetic level, helps to understand the accumulation of heavy metals in plants and their resistance to heavy metal-induced stress. The impact of cadmium toxicity of genomic instability and polymorphism generated by retrotransposons on Amaranthus spp. Is unknown.  Here, five different markers of primer binding sites of retrotransposons were used to analyse the fingerprints generated by them for the changes in Amaranthus cruentus L. of the Pribina variety growing under the stress of cadmium in the growth medium. Polymorphic profiles were obtained for all of them and both, deletions and insertions, were obtained in the fingerprints of treated plants.