Genetic variation within and among fragmented populations of endangered medicinal plant, Withania coagulans (Solanaceae) from Pakistan and its implications for conservation

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2948-2958

  Gilani, Syed Abdullah ^a,b   Kikuchi, Akira ^a   Watanabe, Kazuo N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b KOHAT UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Among population; Conservation; Genetic diversity; Kohat plateau; Pakistan; Population biology; Withania coagulans; Within population

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA FRAGMENT;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTYPE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL ANALYSIS; WITHANIA; WITHANIA COAGULANS;

SOLANACEAE; WITHANIA COAGULANS;

EID: 67650504401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16845315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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