Back ground Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is one of the oldest fruit trees in hot arid region of the world including North Africa. In some areas of Afar region of Ethiopia, date palm grow as landraces, are in danger due to introduction of improved cultivars. Present study was carried out to fill knowledge gap about molecular diversity of this crop in Afar region. Molecular studies of 5 landraces and 3 introduced cultivars of date palm from Afar region of Ethiopia were tested using 21 randomly selected ISSR primers for amplification and polymorphism detection using genomic DNA. ISSR markers across 8 date palm varieties were scored for their presence (1) or absence (0). Shannon's Information index (I) and polymorphic information content (PIC) were analyzed by popGENE 32 and online PIC calculator respectively. Results 17 out of 21 ISSR markers used for this study produced a total of 557 scorable DNA fragments with average of 33.52 per marker and 61.68, 43.93 and 68.22% polymorphism were obtained within local landraces, introduced varieties and among all samples respectively. The genetic distance among all samples ranged from 0.1402 to 0.5953; and the dendrogram separated date palm varieties into seven clusters. ISSR markers used for this study have high discrimination power and the average values of Shannon's information index and PIC were 0.318 and 0.76 respectively. Conclusion Genetic diversity was observed among all date palms studied in this investigation. To have better understanding on genetic diversity of date palm in the Afar region, further research should be done using SNP markers and landraces should be registered.
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