Assessing Genetic Diversity in Mexican Husk Tomato Species

• Published in: Plant molecular biology reporter Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 733 - 738
• Main Authors: Vargas-Ponce, Ofelia, Pérez-Álvarez, Luis F., Zamora-Tavares, Pilar, Rodríguez, Aaron
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer-Verlag 01.09.2011; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Bioinformatics; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Discrimination; Genetic diversity; Interspecific; Interspecific relationships; Life Sciences; Metabolomics; Morphology; Multiculturalism & pluralism; Physalis; Physical characteristics; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology; Plant Sciences; Polymorphism; Primers; Proteomics; Similarity; Species; Taxonomy; Tomatoes; Husk tomato; Genetic diversity; ISSR markers; Genetic relations

Mexico is the center of diversity of the husk tomato ( Physalis L., Solanaceae), which includes a number of commercially important edible and ornamental species. Taxonomic identification is presently based on morphological characteristics, but the presence of high inter- and intraspecific morphologi...