1Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, B. A. College of Agriculture, Anand Agricultural University, Anand-388 110
2Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research Station, Anand Agricultural University, Anand-388 110
*email: bhalalakrupal05@gmail.com
Online published on 9 December, 2016.
Garden cress [Lepidium sativum L.] is an important indigenous medicinal plant which is used in various systems of medicines. It is therefore, essential to understand the pattern of genetic diversity in this important medicinal crop species. Out of 40 SSR primers, only 8 primers were showed amplification of genomic DNA which indicated 20% crosstransferability in garden cress. The study was undertaken to identify the efficient SSR primers that could differentiate a set of 32 garden cress genotypes. The PIC value ranged from 0.176 to 0.375. Clustering pattern of dendrogram generated by SSR data revealed two clusters. The similarity coefficient value ranged from 0.000 and 0.375. The average coefficient similarity for all the genotypes was found 0.102, which indicates the low distribution of genetic variability.
Genetic diversity, SSR, Lepidium sativum L
