“…The inherent characteristics of DNA markers such as abundantness and insensitivity to environmental conditions makes them more useful than morphological and physiological traits in establishing the identity of particular tree/clone or testing the genetic purity or tracing its genetic relationship. Earlier, random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD), inter simple sequence repeats (ISSR), amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP), restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR), DNA amplification fingerprinting (DAF), Arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction (AP-PCR) have been successfully employed for fidelity testing in various plant species (Rani & Raina 2000, Archana et al 2013, Singh et al 2013, Mohammad et al 2016. Among these, ISSR is a very simple, quick, cost-effective, highly discriminative and reliable method that combines most of the advantages of SSRs and AFLP with the universality of RAPD (Reddy et al 2002).…”