The nucleotide sequences polymorphism of the , and regions of chloroplast DNA of the medicinal plant Eleutherococcus senticosus in the south of the Russian Far East (RFE) has been studied. The level of genetic diversity was found to be high in the populations of Primorsky Krai and average on Sakhalin Island. Hierarchical analysis of molecular variance showed very low and insignificant genetic differentiation between the populations of these two regions (Φ = 0.043, P 0.479); more than 62% of all genetic variability accounted for the intrapopulation component (Φ = 0.377, P = 0.000). Eleven haplotypes were identified on the RFE, one of which was private and two were rare for species. All haplotypes known for form a single group with minimal divergence between each other.
Vasyutkina et al. (Wed,) studied this question.