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Wild or cultivated plants used in traditional and modern medicines are categorized as medicinal plants (MPs). Out of over 70,000 MPs, 3000 are traded and 900 are cultivated. Fragmentation/loss of habitats, unsustainable harvests, excessive grazing, invasive species, pollution, and climate change are destroying genetic diversity. Regular use of MPs in modern medicines, consumer/industrial merchandises, and increasing popularity of complementary and alternate (CAM) therapies are expanding national/global trade inciting irrational wild collections beyond regeneration potential of wild populations consequently losing species and genetic diversity. Investigations on endangered species indicated frightening levels of genetic erosion and dwindling population densities/sizes below minimum viable limits. Only a small fraction of known MPs have been evaluated for their genetic diversity and genetic erosion. Morphoagronomic, biochemical and molecular marker, and enzyme studies on wild and cultivated genotypes, populations, species, and geographical regions revealed genetic diversity with varied levels of polymorphism (14-100 %), number of alleles (2-14/locus), observed (0.0-1.0) and expected

Author

B. R. Rajeswara Rao

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319259543

Subjects

Science, Nature, Stem