RAJYA LAKSHMI R., NARAM NAIDU L., VIJAYAPADMA S.S. AND SRAVANTHI G
Abstract
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).