Article
Genetic diversity analysis for wild and cultivated accessions of Cymbopogon citratus (D.C.) Stapf using phytochemical and molecular markers.
PeerJ - 1 Jan 2022
Shamsheer Bushra, Riaz Nadia, Yousaf Zubaida, Hyder Sajjad, Aftab Arusa, Iqbal Rashid, Rahman Muhammad Habib Ur, Al-Ashkar Ibrahim, F Almutairi Khalid, El Sabagh Ayman
Abstract excerpt
Background: Genetic diversity is being lost because of increasing urbanization and decreasing cultivation land, which leads to the abrupt use of wild resources of medicinally aromatic plants (MAPs). Cymbopogon citratus is a morphologically diverse MAP that is largely exploited in the food, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical industries. However, the intraspecific phytochemical and molecular diversity of C. citratus has...
Topics
- Oils, Volatile
- Cymbopogon
- Phytochemicals
- Genetic Variation