DIFFERENTIATING ABILITY OF WHEAT VARIETY IDENTIFICATION METHODS USING MICROSATELLITE ANALYSIS AND COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF THE GRAIN MORPHOMETRIC PARAMETERS
To characterize 17 modern winter soft wheat varieties of PBGI of UAAS breeding the allelic composition of five microsatellite loci was determined parameters instead “indicators” and the values of the six morphometric grain parameters were measured. The microsatellite analysis allows to identify the investigated varieties, including multilinear ones, accurately and uniquely. The computer analysis of digital grain images allows to obtain detailed morphometric characteristic on the basis of which it is possible separate varieties into groups, however this method is not able to identify genotypes unequivocally. As the both methods have different nature, their general applying provides more complete characteristic of the investigated varieties.