1Division of Plant Genetic Resources, Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Hessaraghatta Lake Post, Bangalore-560089, Karnatanka, India
2School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram-695016, Kerala, India
*Author for Correspondence: Email- rajasekharan.pe@gmail.com
Online published on 20 October, 2016.
Genetic diversity analysis was carried out in Alpinia galanga accessions collected from Kerala state of India using Inter Simple Sequence Repeats (ISSR) markers. A total of 60 bands were generated from 18 accessions of A. galanga using 11 ISSR primers. Of these 24 (40%) were polymorphic and remaining 36 (60%) were monomorphic. Total Nei's genetic diversity among the three populations was estimated as h= 0.1735 ± 0.013 and I= 0.2470 ± 0.078. Nei's estimator of population substructure (GST) indicated a fairly low level of population differentiation (GST = 0.2139). Based on this study we propose a conservation strategy to this species.
Alpinia galanga, Genetic differentiation, Genetic diversity, Greater galangal, ISSR
