<em>Brachiaria</em> access germplasm distinction using SDS PAGE

Abstract

Brachiaria is a very important grass used as forage in tropical countries. However, improvement of Brachiaria species is slow and time consuming, being made essentially by introduction of the foreign genetic material. To verify the difference among accesses of different species of Brachiaria, five access of six species, were submitted to SDS-PAGE. The accesses of Brachiaria presented variations in almost all the species. Brachiaria jubata showed little variation, meaning that received samples are very homogeneous genetically. The other species present enough variations to separate wild accesses