“…Similar results were obtained in previous studies of Santalum and other tree species like O. lanceolata (Otieno et al, 2016), S. spicatum (Millar et al, 2012), S. lanceolatum (Jones et al, 2010), S. leptocladum (Jones et al, 2010), S. album (Fatima et al, 2019b) and Phyllostachys violascens , (Cai et al, 2019). In contrast to our study, low Na was observed in S. album by using genic SSR markers (Fatima et al, 2019a) and, Ambrosia artemisiifolia , (Meyer et al, 2017). The PIC value of 14 populations ranged from 0.83-0.96 (Table 2) in which 10 populations were highly polymorphic (PIC>0.8).…”