TY - JOUR ID - 68966 TI - The Genetic and Phytochemical Diversity of Four Populations of Lemongrass (Cymbopogon olivieri) from Southeast Iran JO - Journal of Applied Biotechnology Reports JA - JABR LA - en SN - 2322-1186 AU - Kahnouji, Zeynab AU - Sharifi-Sirchi, Gholam-Reza AU - Sassan, Hossein Ali AD - Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran AD - Department of Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Sources, University of Hormozgan, Bandar Abbas, Iran AD - Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran Y1 - 2017 PY - 2017 VL - 4 IS - 3 SP - 657 EP - 660 DO - N2 - Lemongrass (Cymbopogon olivieri) is highly cross-pollinated and fragrant herb plant. Because of so worthy essential oil components, it is widely used in cosmetics, food, and medicine industry. The C. olivieri leaves of 4 populations were sampled from South and Southeast Iran. Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers used to assess the population structure and genetic variation. In total, 32 polymorphic bands amplified from 11 effective chosen RAPD markers. Cluster analysis using the UPGMA method divided the populations into 2 main groups. A high cophenetic correlation coefficient (r = 0.90) was obtained. The pale yellow essential oils were used for GC-MS analysis. Pipertone, carrene, elemol, limonene, benzene, α-pinene, linalool, azulene, and calarene were the components with the highest amount found in this study. The high genetic and phytochemical diversity among studied C. olivieri population was observed which could be applied in following breeding and gene bank conservation programs. UR - https://www.biotechrep.ir/article_68966.html L1 - https://www.biotechrep.ir/article_68966_4342c3c2ec76f3d7d16616f17c3cacb6.pdf ER -