STUDIES ON MOLECULAR DIVERGENCE IN EGG PLANT (SOLANUM MELONGENA L.) USING RAPD MARKERSRAJYA LAKSHMI R., NARAM NAIDU L., VIJAYAPADMA S.S. AND SRAVANTHI GAbstract The RAPD analysis with 11 primers produced 100 per cent polymorphism with an average of 4.5 polymorphic bands per primer and detected a moderate level of genetic variation among brinjal accessions with average similarity coefficient of 0.36. Accession-specific RAPD markers were detected only for few accessions such as IC112726 (OPP 17) and IC336793 (OPB 20). The UPGMA analysis grouped the accessions into two main clusters viz., cluster I (forty four accessions) and cluster II (forty accessions). |