This research was carried out in molecular biology laboratory
faculty of agriculture /Damascus University during the agriculture
season 2015-2016, to study the genetic diversity and determine the
degree of genetic similarity among eleven 11 cultiv
ated vetch
(Aleppo, Idleb, Kamishly, Hassekeh, Tartous, Lattakia, Homs,
Hama, Sweida, Damascus,Daraa) by using the technique ISSR.
Shami goat in Syria is one of the important domestic breeds, because of its
high productivity and breeding capacity under the hard environmental
conditions and it is still being used in crossbreeding with Mountain goats as a
donor for milk produci
ng traits. This breed is still far away from scientific
investigations even it has been exposed to a random crossbreeding with
Mountain goats by goat breeders. This has lead to the possibility of losing some
of its genetic characteristics which are not detected yet. In this research the
genetic diversity among groups of pure Shami goats was determined using
ISSR-PCR on blood and results indicated that there was a molecular genetic
diversity among studied goats and polymorphic rate was register to 100%.
