Genetic Diversity and Similarity Studies in different Accessions of Decalepis hamiltonii by Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) Analysis

Authors(2) :- B. Mohan, B. Rajani

Decalepis hamiltonii Wight & Arn is a valuable endemic and endangered medicinal shrub. The species is commonly called as maredu kommulu or barre sugandhi or maradu gaddalu or makali beru belonging to the family Asclepediaceae. Its roots have been used in Ayurveda, the ancient Indian traditional systems of medicine to stimulate appetite, skin diseases, diaphoretic, hemorrhoids, rheumatism, bronchitis, diaphoretic, somatic and antiviral and as a general tonic. It is also useful as a blood purifier, preservative, diarrhea, respiratory disorders and urinary disorders. The present paper deals with Genetic diversity and similarity studies in different accessions of Decalepis hamiltonii by Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA analysis. The study was taken up with 15 RAPD Primes, distance matrix (dendrogram) using Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic averages (UPGMA) or neighbour-joining, were calculated using Jaccard’s similarity. The maximum genetic similarity among the collected species was sixty five percentages which was calculated by Jaccard’s coefficient. These results could be very useful to study and manage the genetic resources of an important medicinal plant.

Authors and Affiliations

B. Mohan
Department of Botany, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
B. Rajani
Department of Botany, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Decalepis hamiltonii, Roots, Accessions, RAPD, Dendrogram, UPGMA, Genetic similarity

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Published in : Volume 4 | Issue 5 | March-April 2018
Date of Publication : 2018-04-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 707-718
Manuscript Number : IJSRST184530
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X

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B. Mohan, B. Rajani, " Genetic Diversity and Similarity Studies in different Accessions of Decalepis hamiltonii by Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) Analysis", International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Volume 4, Issue 5, pp.707-718, March-April-2018.
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