Adéoti K. auteur aut IRD Rival Alain auteur aut IRD Dansi A. auteur aut IRD Ahohuendo B. C. auteur aut IRD Santoni S. auteur aut IRD Beulé Thierry auteur aut IRD Nato A. auteur aut IRD Henry Y. auteur aut IRD Ahanchédé A. auteur aut IRD Vodouhè R. auteur aut IRD Hounhouigan D. J. auteur aut IRD Sanni A. auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers were used to evaluate the genetic diversity and explore the genetic relationship among accessions of Acmella uliginosa and Justicia tenella, two leaf vegetables collected from different areas in the northwest and northeast parts of Benin (West Africa). The total number of exploitable amplicons revealed with genomic DNA from A. uliginosa was 224 with an average of 50.5% polymorphic amplicons. Using DNA from J. tenella, we obtained 34% of polymorphic amplicons from a total of 418. The coefficient of dissimilarity varied from 0.01 to 0.67 and from 0.17 to 0.62 for Acmella and Justicia, respectively. Low genetic diversity was observed among Acmella accessions although three distinct clusters could be differentiated. Contrarily, a great genetic diversity was observed among J. tenella accessions. In addition to this, most of the clusters were heterogeneous and showed the relationship between accessions collected from northeast and northwest. Our results confirm the robustness of AFLP techniques for genetic diversity studies and they provide the first set of molecular data for these two species. specialized Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) genetic diversity leafy vegetable Benin 076 10 15 2811-2819 2011 1684-5315 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/PAR00007819 1684-5315 [F B010053722] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/PAR00007819 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2011/08/010053722.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2011-09-01 2017-08-23 PAR00007819 fre