High genetic diversity within and low differentiation among Juniperusexcelsa M. Bieb. populations: Molecular markers reveal their genetic structure patterns
Journal: TURKISH JOURNAL OF BOTANY
Year: 2021

J. excelsa M. Bieb forms about 82% of the total juniper forests in Turkey. A total of 456 plant samples belonging to 19 J. excelsa populations were collected to determine the genetic variation of J. excelsa and compare their genetic diversity among populations via simple-sequence repeat (SSR) and intron targeted amplified polymorphism (ITAP) markers. Seven SSR and 132 ITAP loci were polymorphic. The percentage of polymorphism for ITAP loci at the population level ranged from 31.34 to 55.97. Aver