Phenotypic and Genotypic Variation of Cultivated Panax quinquefolius.

ABSTRACT: American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) is widely used due to its medicinal properties. Ontario is a major producer of cultivated American ginseng, where seeds were originally collected from the wild without any subsequent scientific selection, and thus the crop is potentially very diverse. A collection of 162 American ginseng plants was harvested from a small area in a commercial garden and phenotyped for morphological traits, such as root grade, stem length, and fresh and dry weights of roots, leaves, stems, and seeds. All of the traits showed a range of values, and correlations were observed between root and stem weights, root dry weight and leaf dry weight, as well as root and leaf fresh weights. The plants were also genotyped using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at the P

SUBMITTER: Abaya A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10821518 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature