Genetic diversity and structure of Dendrocalamus hamiltonii natural metapopulation: a commercially important bamboo species of northeast Himalayas.

ABSTRACT: Dendrocalamus hamiltonii is a commercially important bamboo species of India, experiencing population depletion due to heavy extraction from natural forests. Nuclear simple sequence repeats (nSSRs) were used to study the genetic diversity and population genetic structure of 19 natural stands of D. hamiltonii distributed across the northeast Himalayas. A total of 68 nSSR primer pairs of D. latiflorus and Bambusa arundinacea have been tested in D. hamiltonii for their transferability, out of which 17 primers showing positive and polymorphic amplification were used for genotyping. A total of 130 alleles were generated in 535 individuals of all the populations using selected primer pairs. The marker analysis indicated that D. hamiltonii populations hav

SUBMITTER: Meena RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6356152 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature