title: Development and characterization of microsatellite markers for Lychnophora pinaster: a study for the conservation of a native medicinal plant.
abstract: Lychnophora pinaster Mart. (Asteraceae) is a Brazilian medicinal plant, extensively employed in popular medicine as an anti-inflammatory, analgesic and healing agent. Thirteen polymorphic microsatellite markers were developed and optimized for L. pinaster from an enriched genomic library. The markers were used to analyse 37 plants from two native populations, generating an average number of 6.6 alleles per polymorphic locus. These loci are important tools for future studies of population genetics.
authors.affiliation: Unesp - Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas, Departamento de Produção Vegetal/Horticultura, CP 237, Botucatu - SP 18610-307, Brazil Instituto Agronômico de Campinas, Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Recursos Genéticos Vegetais - CP 28, Campinas - SP 13075-630, Brazil Unesp - Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Genética Distrito de Rubião Jr, s/n° Botucatu - SP 18618-000, Brazil Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia CP 02372, Brasilia - DF 70770-900, Brazil.
authors.forename: L H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Haber
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Cavallari
authors.forename: F R C
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: M O M
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Marques
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Gimenes
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Zucchi