Association of Morphological, Ecological, and Genetic Diversity of Aerva javanica Populations Growing in the Eastern Desert of Egypt
Autor: | Hanaa K. Galal, Hoida Zaki, Magda I. Soliman, Noha El-Tayeh |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Genetic diversity education.field_of_study Ecology Population ISSR lcsh:S Molecular variation Interspecific competition genetic diversity Biology Sequence repeat 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences food.food lcsh:Agriculture Aerva javanica food aridity Genetic variability education Medicinal plants Agronomy and Crop Science 010606 plant biology & botany |
Zdroj: | Agronomy Volume 10 Issue 3 Agronomy, Vol 10, Iss 3, p 402 (2020) |
ISSN: | 2073-4395 |
DOI: | 10.3390/agronomy10030402 |
Popis: | Aerva javanica is one of Egypt&rsquo s most important traditional medicinal plants used as antidiarrheal and anthelmintic medicine and recently as an anticancer agent. In this study, variations among ten populations of Aerva javanica in different sites in the Eastern Desert of Egypt were analyzed based on morphological and ecological attributes and molecular variation expressed by Inter-Simple Sequence Repeat (ISSR) markers. Morphological diversity was higher for populations in the Wadi El-Markh and Bir Abbady regions than others. The polymorphism revealed by ten ISSR primers was 79.4% among populations. Distance trees created using the results obtained from soil variables, morphological characterizations, and molecular data showed that the highest similarity was 0.974 between Populations 8 and 9, while the lowest similarity was 0.715 between Population 1 and Population 3 regions. In conclusion, the obtained data are important to design a plan for sustainable conservation of Aerva javanica as an important medicinal plant having a wide interspecific genetic variability within various populations. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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