This study was carried out to investigate genetic relationships among leaf characteristics in collected varieties of native tea, Camellia sinensis var. sinensis, by RAPD analysis. The results can be summarized as follows : Leaf size with outer leaf form was 7.7±3.6x3.5±2.7cm, and large leaf form was much than Yabukita. The size of amplified DNA bands pattern ranged from 300 to 3,000bp, with distinct patterns among different leaf and morphological traits. The mean band number among primer was 5 bands, and total band number among primers ranged from 25 to 178 bands. Genetic similarity between red long-ellipsoidal and the brown wide ellipsoidal small-leaf was represented 0.37 by RAPD-UPGA analysis. But the value of genetic similarity among the reddish brown long ellipsoidal leaf, the reddish brown long-ellipsoidal large leaf, the red wide-ellipsoidal and the red wide-ellipsoidal large-leaf was shown 0.68.
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