February 2015

Genetic diversity of sesame germplasm collection (SESAMUM INDICUM L.): implication for conservation, improvement and use

Genetic diversity assessment of genetic resources maintained at Gene-Banks has important implication for future improvement, conservation and collection activities. However, such information is not available for sesame collected by IBC, Ethiopia. Inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR) marker was used to assess the level of genetic diversity, genetic structure and genetic distance, and to indirectly estimate the level of...

Author(s): Dagmawi Teshome  Woldesenbet, Kassahun Tesfaye and Endashaw Bekele