diversity Article Morphological and Genetic Diversity of Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.) in the Karakoram Mountains of Northern Pakistan Muhammad Arslan Nawaz 1 ID , Konstantin V. Krutovsky 2,3,4,5 ID , Markus Mueller 2 ID , Oliver Gailing 2, Asif Ali Khan 6, Andreas Buerkert 1 ID and Martin Wiehle 1,7,* 1 Organic Plant Production and Agroecosystems Research in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Kassel, Steinstrasse 19, D-37213 Witzenhausen, Germany;
[email protected] (M.A.N.);
[email protected] (A.B.) 2 Department of Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 2, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany;
[email protected] (K.V.K.);
[email protected] (M.M.);
[email protected] (O.G.) 3 Laboratory of Population Genetics, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia 4 Laboratory of Forest Genomics, Genome Research and Education Center, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk 660036, Russia 5 Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2138, USA 6 Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture, 66000 Multan, Pakistan;
[email protected] 7 Tropenzentrum and International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD), University of Kassel, Steinstrasse 19, D-37213 Witzenhausen, Germany * Correspondence:
[email protected]; Tel.: +49-5542-98-1372 Received: 9 July 2018; Accepted: 27 July 2018; Published: 30 July 2018 Abstract: Sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.) is a dioecious, wind-pollinated shrub growing in Eurasia including the Karakoram Mountains of Pakistan (Gilgit-Baltistan territory).