Efficiency of floristic, phytochemical and molecular markers to determine diversity in Iranian populations of Triticum boeoticum

Little information is available regarding genetic variation in Triticum boeoticum, as a common wild wheat relative in Iran. In order to study floristic, phytochemical and molecular classification of this species, an analysis was conducted on populations of the T. boeoticum collected from different regions of Iran. All three markers nearly showed a high variability in T. boeoticum populations. In another word, distinguished grouping of populations in floristic method was confirmed by both phytochemical and molecular methods. The results from our study indicate that floristic classification in some way is still useful, efficient, and economic tools for characterizing the amount and distribution of genetic variation in natural populations.