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Identification of molecular markers to study the Garcinia spp. diversity.
Indian journal of experimental biology - 1 Jun 2016
Parthasarathy Utpala, Nandakishore O P, Rosana O B, Babu K Nirmal, Kumar R Senthil, Parthasarathy V A
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The genus Garcinia shows a considerable variation in its morphological characters such as leaf, flower and fruit with taxonomic ambiguity. It is a potential under-exploited multipurpose crop that gained considerable attention for the presence of (-) hydroxycitric acid, an anti-obesity compound, in its fruit rind and leaves. Here, we evaluated the genetic relationship through molecular markers among the selected 9...
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