rapd markers were employed to assess the genetic diversity of 34 iranian wild edible asparagus (a. officinalis) genotypes as well as cv. mary washington and a. persicus. in total, 80 rapd primers were employed for pcr reactions, among which, 18 revealed reasonable polymorphism. the 18 primers produced 175 bands, of which, 160 were polymorphic (91.4% polymorphism). cluster analysis of the genoty...

introduction despite the fact that iran is one of the major chickpea (cicer arietinum l.) center of origins, limited information is available regarding chickpea genetic variation and diversity. genetic diversity information is crucial for the choice of proper parents to establish new breeding programs. chickpea germplasm is poor, suggesting the need for gaining enough knowledge of genetic diver...

almond is one of the most valuable horticultural nut crops in the world with iran being amongst the most important regions of its distribution. rapd markers were employed to evaluate the diversity levels and relationship among some 56 collected genotypes of the crop. through sixteen rapd primers a number of, 171 dna bands were produced, 168 of which were polymorphic. the samples which according...

in the present study, randomly amplified polymorphic dna (rapd) markers were used to analyze the genetic diversity in 20 varieties of philodendron. the polymerase chain reaction was performed with 60 rapd primers, out of which 21 primers showed clear amplification as well as more polymorphism. in total, 354 scorable rapd loci with 348 polymorphic bands (98%) were observed. percentages of polymo...

Crataegus spp. are used for horticultural and medicinal purposes. The medicinal importance of Crataegus is attributed to components such as flavonoids, procyanidin, aromatic acid, and cardiotonic amines. The genetic relationships among the five Iranian Crataegus species including C. aronia, C. pontica, C. meiery, C. monogyna, and C. pentagyna were assessed using inter simple sequence repeats (IS...

Laportea aestuans L. (Chew), Commelina virginica (L.) and Sida rhombifolia are common wild plants used in treating several ailments including diarrhea, dysentery, hernia, oedema, ulcers many more traditional African medicine especially, Nigeria. The potentials of Random Amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) primers delimiting intra-specific variation aestuans, C. S. was assessed using three RAPD pri...

The pomegranate has been used traditionally in Coruh Valley in Turkey for a long time; fruits are harvested from wild, semi-domesticated and cultivated trees. In the valley, it occurs in general along with olive trees. We sampled 23 wild-grown pomegranate genotypes sampled from different parts of Coruh Valley and compared them using RAPD primers to determine genetic variability. Eighty-six RAPD...

CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 81, NO. 3, 10 AUGUST 2001 248 by repeating the experiment at least once. A total of 34 decamer primers (series OPA, OPB etc.) from Operon Tech, CA, USA were screened using three representative genomic DNA samples of black pepper. Of these, 24 primers that yielded consistent and clear band patterns were selected for the final analysis of the 22 accessions used in the presen...

Random amplified polymorphic DNA polymerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR) and inter simple sequence repeats (ISSRs) markers were performed to detect the genetic diversity among 6 new rice lines and 4 cultivars with different responses to drought tolerance and establish specific DNA markers associated with drought tolerance. Among 16 RAPD primers tested, only 5 produced bands polymorphic between lin...

Costus pictus, belonging to the family Costaceae, is one of the valuable medicinal plants with its anti-diabetic property. Despite ever-increasing demand from the pharmaceutical industry, this species is being less exploited at molecular level. Hence, an effort has been made in the present study to characterize the 15 accessions of C. pictus collected from different geographical regions of Indi...