Dendrophlomis Bentham

ITS: internal transcribed spacer PCR: polymerase chain reaction RAPDs: randomly amplified polymorphic DNA UPGMA: unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic averages This study used randomly amplified polymorphic DNA markers to determine genetic relationships among species of the subsection Dendrophlomis. Twenty accessions of the eleven Phlomis taxa were evaluated to determine genetic variability using fourteen ten mer primers selected from a 125 random oligonucleotide set. These 14 selected primers generated 85 RAPD bands that ranged in size from 200 to 1200 base pairs. Of the total bands, 88 % (75) were polymorphic among the samples. Genetic distances among accessions were computed to produce a dendrogram based on UPGMA