Utility of a multidisciplinary approach for genome diagnostics of cultivated and wild germplasm resources of medicinal Withania somnifera, and the status of new species, W. ashwagandha, in the cultivated taxon

Plant Systematics and Evolution

Volumn 291, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 141-151

  Kumar, Arun ^a   Mir, Bilal A ^a   Sehgal, Deepmala ^b   Dar, Tanvir H ^b   Koul, Sushma ^a   Kaul, Maharaj K ^a   Raina, Soom N ^c   Qazi, Ghulam N ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c AMITY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

AFLP markers; Crossability; ITS1 and ITS2 RFLP; Sequence length composition; Withania ashwagandha; Withania somnifera

Indexed keywords

WITHANIA; WITHANIA SOMNIFERA;

EID: 79951517593     PISSN: 03782697     EISSN: 16156110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00606-010-0372-4     Document Type: Article

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