Abstract:To study the magnitude and nature of genetic variation in Leymus chinensis,the level and pattern of RAPD variation were investigated for eight populations located in middle and east part of Inner Mongolia. Ten plants from each of eight populations were screened for variation using 24 RAPD primers. The mean number of DNA bands amplified per primer was 9.33. The number of polymorphic bands generated was primer dependent, ranging from 4 to 12. The RAPD analysis showed that 173 out of 224 amplified fragments (7...