Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA and Inter Simple Sequence Repeats Banding Pattern of Globba marantina Populations from Eastern India

India is well known throughout the world as the land of aromatic plants, spices and traditional perfumes because of its favourable climatic conditions suitable for the development of these plants. The rhizome of ginger plants are eaten raw or cooked as vegetables, used for flavouring food and in treatment of diseases. Medicinal plants are valued for curing various diseases which are continually declining in nature which requires conservation to help in various ways to the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and other industries. Therefore the genetic study is very essential to explore their molecular structure for producing high yielding varieties. In the present work molecular characterization of Globba marantina from four different sites of Odisha using two molecular markers as Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA and Inter Simple Sequence Repeats has been done. The unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean dendrogram based on Jaccard’s similarity coefficient of combined markers segregated these genotypes into two main clusters and showed the genetic similarity between the populations studied. Hence, the molecular analysis could be further used for identification of important novel gene present in Globba marantina which could be utilized for future crop improvement.