Identification of SNPs and SSRs markers in Lantana camara L. An important medicinal and aromatic plant

Lantana camara L. is a medicinal and essential oil producing plant belonging to family Verbenaceae. It is used as a medication for the treatment of various diseases and also contains important bioactive compounds i.e. steroids, flavonoids and phenylpropanoid glycosides etc. Nonetheless, very little is known about their genomic resources which might be the reason of hindering its molecular studies. In the present study we used high throughput RNA sequencing to identify SNP and SSR markers within the leaf and root transcriptomes of L.camara . Interestingly, we identified a total of 9,669 SNPs and 18,171 SSRs in the leaf while 9,226 SNPs and 65963 SSRs in the root transcriptomes of L. camara. Thus, this investigation not only provides valuable insights into molecular characterization but also these novel SSRs may be applied to genetic linkage mapping, genetic polymorphism as well as functional gene mining studies in L. camara and its closely related species.