• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.509-514
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• 2006

For the variant identification of Korean dogwood, Cornus kousa Buerg., we investigated useful genetic marker using the ISSR primer. The overall amplicons was 58 in six primers and the mean number of amplicons per primer was 9.67. The UPGMA dendrogram based on the genetic distance showed two major clusters composed of pink-bracted and white-bracted groups respectively. And white-bracted group was divided to two groups, island and inland groups. This result showed that ISSR analysis provides useful markers for the variant identification even in the seedling or young tree of Cornus kousa, especially pink-bracted individuals of Isl. Oenaro.