Morpho-metric and molecular characterization of Uraria picta (Jacq.) Desv.ex DC. - A medicinal plant

Publication date: Available online 28 January 2020Source: Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic PlantsAuthor(s): Birendra Kumar, Priyanka Prasad, Jafar Mehdi, Akancha Gupta, Karuna Shanker, Manju Singh, Rajni Gautam, Hemant Kumar YadavAbstractUraria picta (Jacq.) Desv. ex DC. (Family Papilionaceae) is a critically endangered plant and one of the most important ingredients among the ten herbs used for ayurvedic formulation called as Dashmula. Considering the importance of the plant, the present investigation was undertaken to (i) evaluate and assess the genetic variability among the 23 accessions of U. picta based on various morpho-metric traits including rhoifolin content in root and aerial part and RAPD profiling (ii) estimate various statistical parameters such as broad sense heritability, genetic advance, direction and magnitude of correlation among the various morpho-metric traits as selection parameters and (iii) identification of potential accessions for their possible application in genetic improvement. The accession UP-18 was found to be most promising as the rhoifolin content in aerial part was 0.67%, and in the root, it was 0.19%. While the accessions UP-21 (1.01%) followed by UP-19 (0.78%), UP-11 (0.75%) had highest rhoifolin content in aerial plant part. On the basis of growth and yield performance at CIMAP, Lucknow, UP-21, and UP-22 accessions performed well as compared to rest of the accessions. The RAPD profiling also identified accessions UP-23...
Source: Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research