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Molecular markers in medicinal plant biotechnology: past and present.
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PMID:  21649550     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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Plant based medicines have gained popularity worldwide due to their almost negligible side effects. In India, the three traditional medicinal systems, namely homeopathy, Ayurveda and Siddha rely heavily on plants for medicinal formulations. To prevent the indiscriminate collection of these valuable medicinal plants and for their proper authentication and conservation, it is imperative to go for sustained efforts towards proper germplasm cataloguing and devising conservation strategies. For this purpose, molecular markers have a significant role, as they provide information ranging from diversity at nucleotide level (single nucleotide polymorphisms) to gene and allele frequencies (genotype information), the extent and distribution of genetic diversity, and population structure. Over the past twenty years, the molecular marker field has completely transformed the meaning of conservation genetics which has emerged from a theory-based field of population biology to a full-fledged pragmatic discipline. In this review, we have explored the transition and transformation of molecular marker technologies throughout these years.
Authors:
Maryam Sarwat; Gowher Nabi; Sandip Das; Prem Shankar Srivastava
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Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-6-8
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Title:  Critical reviews in biotechnology     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1549-7801     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Jun 
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Created Date:  2011-6-8     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
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Nlm Unique ID:  8505177     Medline TA:  Crit Rev Biotechnol     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
Affiliation:
Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India.
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