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Systematic Position, Phylogeny, and Taxonomic Revision of Indian Ocimum

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Abstract

The genus Ocimum belongs to the family Lamiaceae, and most popular herb/shrub known for its immense value belongs to their medicinal properties and aroma profile. The presence of vast morphological as well as chemical variability within the genus, its taxonomy, and phylogenetic relationships is still debatable. Adding to this, chemotypes within the species, which are more or less similar in morphology, increases the complexity to higher level. Nowadays, the use of molecular markers, viz. PCR and sequence-based markers, became an essential tool to assess interspecific relationships as they are highly efficient and provide more variable and informative insight into evolutionary rates. The present article presents the detailed taxonomic description as well as phylogenetic relationships among the Indian Ocimum species.

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Director, CSIR-CIMAP, Lucknow, is duly acknowledged for providing the laboratory facilities required to carry out this research. Authors also express their gratitude for the financial support from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, through the XIIth FYP project ChemBio (BSC-0203).

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    Ashutosh K. Shukla & Ajit Kumar Shasany

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Kumar, A., Shukla, A.K., Shasany, A.K., Sundaresan, V. (2018). Systematic Position, Phylogeny, and Taxonomic Revision of Indian Ocimum. In: Shasany, A., Kole, C. (eds) The Ocimum Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97430-9_5

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