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...

Chinese kale is an original Chinese vegetable of the Cruciferae family. To select suitable parents for hybrid breeding, we thoroughly analyzed the genetic diversity of Chinese kale. Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and sequence-related amplified polymorphism (SRAP) molecular markers were used to evaluate the genetic diversity across 21 Chinese kale accessions from AVRDC and Guangzhou in ...

Recently, we applied the randomamplified polymorphic DNA polymerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR) (17), also known as arbitrarily primed PCR (AP-PCR) (16), procedure to fingerprint genomes of various varieties and wild relatives of sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) (4). Unlike restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) (2), RAPD-PCR is a simpler, faster, less laborious and less expensive procedure. H...

One virulent phage specific to Bacillus Subtilis was isolated from soil cultivated with liquorices root in Matruh governorate, Cairo, Egypt. The B. subtilis phage isolate produced 0.13 cm diameter circular plaques; turbid and without central zone. In vitro determination of thermal inactivation point (TIP), dilution end point (DEP) and longevity in vitro (LIV) were found to be 68°C/10 min, 10 an...

Seventeen mint accessions representing the three species grown for commercial oil production in the United States were characterized using randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis. The RAPD profiles readily identified the different Mentha species; calculation of genetic distance, based on the number of shared bands, indicated that M. spicata L. is more closely related to M. x gracilis...

Random-amplified-polymorphic-DNA(RAPD) was assayed to detect the genetic variation of 6 barley generations from Iraq. Four primers generated a total 17 scoreable bands in RAPD analysis) and resolving power, three polymorphic differed (Rp). The use marker systems distance among generation discovered be beneficial. dendrograms indicate diverse grouping barely specimens, although we did see that c...

The use of highly discriminatory methods for the identification and characterization of genotypes is essential for plant protection and appropriate use. We utilized the RAPD method for the genetic fingerprinting of 11 plant species of desert origin (seven with known medicinal value). Andrachne telephioides, Zilla spinosa, Caylusea hexagyna, Achillea fragrantissima, Lycium shawii, Moricandia sin...

Understanding the genetic variation in germplasm is of utmost importance for crop improvement. Therefore, efforts were made to analyse the molecular marker based genetic diversity of 20 Annona genotypes from five different species of family Annonaceae. During analysis, a set of 11 RAPD primers yielded a total of 152 bands with 80.01 % polymorphism and PIC for RAPD ranged from 0.86 to 0.92 with ...

Methods for identifying isolates of various pathogenic bacteria by DNA fingerprinting with random primers (RAPD) have been described recently. In these methods many primers are screened and the primers that generate the most informative DNA pattern are selected. A new strategy that simplifies the primer selection process for RAPD fingerprinting has been developed in our laboratory. In this appr...

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...