Identification of Oil Tea( Camellia ole ife ra ) Super iorClones by ISSRMolecularMarker

ISSR were used to detect the genetic diversity among 10 oil-tea camellia superior clones and 1 controlsamp le ( seedling). 16 p rimers out of 99 were screened out and 135 ISSR markerswere amp lified from these cloneswith 114 polymorphic loci. The average genetic distance between genotypes of cloneswas 0. 419,which was of closerdistance compared with that between superior clones and control samp le, 0. 58. The study showed that there was abig genetic distance between them and established the molecular identification of oil tea superior clones. It meansthat a sound ground was laid down for the molecular breeding of oil-tea.