Table 3.

Employment of AFLP markers in molecular characterization of medicinal plants

Medicinal plant species	Achievements	References
Dioscorea rotundata and D. cayenensis	Assessment of genetic diversity	Mignouna et al. (1997)
Azadirachta indica	Assessment of genetic diversity	Singh et al. (1999)
Datura sp.	Assessment of genetic diversity	Mace et al. (1999)
Moringa oliefera	Determination of genetic variation	Muluvi et al. (1999)
Cichorium sp.	Diagnostic marker for endive and chicory	Kiers et al. (2000)
Azadirachta indica	Clonal fidelity in tissue culture raised plants	Singh et al. (2002)
Actaea racemosa L.	Identification and discrimination from three other closely related sympatric species	Zerega et al. (2002)
Papaver (section Oxytona), in vitro cell lines of P. bracteatum	Assessment species differentiation and genetic variability of in vitro-cultured plantlets	Carolan et al. (2002)
Azadirachta indica A. Juss.	Establishing clonal fidelity of tissue culture-raised plants	Singh et al. (2002)
Solanum nigrum complex	Assessment of genetic relationship between 14 genotypes of black nightshade	Jacoby et al. (2003)
Echinacea purpurea	Genetic mapping of via DNA fingerprinting of individual pollen	Aziz and Sauve (2008)
Taxus wallichiana	Assessment of genetic variation in nine natural populations from western part of the Himalayan ranges	Mohapatra et al. (2009)
Carthamus tinctorius	Inheritance and molecular marker analyses for HSYA trait	Zhang et al. (2009)
Echinacea tennesseensis (Beadle) Small	Phenotypic analyses during in vitro multiplication, storage, and acclimatization into soil	Moraes et al. (2011)
Valeriana jatamansi Jones	Assessment of genetic diversity and population structure in Western Himalaya, India	Rajkumar et al. (2011)