ISSN 2736-1624
Frontiers of Agriculture and Food Technology ISSN 7295-2849 Vol. 8 (2), pp. 001-003, February, 2018. © International Scholars Journals
Short Communication
Electrophoretic characterization of crude leaf proteins in Lycopersicon and Trichosanthes cultivars
Azeez, M. A.1* and Morakinyo, J. A.2
1Department of Pure and Applied Biology,Ladoke Akintola University of Technology,Ogbomoso, Nigeria.
2Bioscience Department, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.
Accepted 28 September, 2017
Abstract
Young leaves of three cultivars of Lycopersicon esculentum (Mill) and a cultivar of Trichosanthes cucumerina var. anguina (Haines) were freshly collected at 50% flowering. Crude leaf proteins were extracted from them and characterized using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Intercultivar qualitative as well as quantitative protein bands depict some degree of relationship among the Lycopersicon cultivars studied. The degree of variation in protein bands as a measure of genetic divergence between L. esculentum cultivars and T. cucumerina was discussed.
Key words: Electrophoresis, protein, Lycopersicon, Trichosanthes.