plants Article Influence of Environmental Factors on the Genetic and Chemical Diversity of Brickellia veronicifolia Populations Growing in Fragmented Shrublands from Mexico Yesenia Pacheco-Hernández 1, Nemesio Villa-Ruano 2, Edmundo Lozoya-Gloria 3,* , César Augusto Barrales-Cortés 4, Fabiola Eloisa Jiménez-Montejo 1 and María del Carmen Cruz-López 1,* 1 Centro de Investigación en Biotecnología Aplicada, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Tlaxcala 90700, Mexico;
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[email protected] (M.d.C.C.-L.) Abstract: Brickellia veronicifolia is a native Asteraceae from Mexico that persists in fragmented habitats. This investigation reports the genetic and chemical diversity of B. veronicifolia. The diversity analysis based on iPBS markers showed an averaged Shannon index (S) of 0.3493, a Nei genetic diversity (h) of 0.2256, and a percentage of polymorphic loci average (P) of 80.7867%. The population structure obtained by AMOVA revealed that the highest variation found within populations was 94.58%. Citation: Pacheco-Hernández, Y.; GC-MS profiling of six populations indicated that major volatiles were β–caryophyllene (11.63%), Villa-Ruano, N.; Lozoya-Gloria, E.; spathulenol (12.85%), caryophyllene oxide (13.98%), α–cadinol (7.04%), cubedol (6.72%) and tau- Barrales-Cortés, C.A.; muurolol (4.81%).