ISSR MARKER BASED DNA FINGERPRINTING IN RELEASED VARIETIES AND SELECTED SUPERIOR SOMACLONES OF GINGER (ZINGIBER OFFICINALE ROSC.)

Inter Simple Sequence Repeats (ISSR) assay was performed to fingerprint ginger varieties released from Kerala Agricultural University, Vellanikkara, Keralaviz., “Athira”, “Karthika” and “Aswathi” and three selected superior somaclones of ginger viz., B3, 478R and 88R and source parent cultivars Maran and Rio-de-Janeiro. Good quality genomic DNA was extracted from ginger varieties/somaclones and source parent cultivars using CTAB method. Thirty...