Phenotypic and Genetic Diversity of Hydrangea Germplasm Resources and the Construction of DNA Fingerprint Profiles
This study assessed the genetic diversity of 30 Hydrangea accessions (21 wild species and 9 cultivated varieties) using 33 morphological traits and 22 pairs of polymorphic SSR markers. Morphological analysis showed that for 24 qualitative traits, the Shannon–Wiener index (H′) ranged from 0.124 to 1.559, the Simpson ind...