The morphological and molecular diversity of 101 peanut varieties from South China were analyzed to identify distinctness among these varieties. No significant difference was observed for six characteristics whereas a range 0.25–0.51 index 11 characteristics, with an average value 0.39. Molecular characterization 40 highly polymorphic simple sequence repeats (SSRs) generated total 167 alleles r...

Olive is one of the most important crops in Mediterranean Basin, because olive oil economic value and its role characterization rural landscape. The strong influence climatic changes on modern agriculture availability a large source genetic variability pose as crucial future challenges. Therefore, safeguarding resources becomes fundamental, not only cultivated forms ex situ collections, but als...

Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) or microsatellites are an important class of molecular markers for genome analysis and plant breeding applications. In this paper, the SSR distributions within ESTs from the legumes soybean (Glycine max, representing 135.86 Mb), medicago (Medicago truncatula, 121.1 Mb) and lotus (Lotus japonicus, 45.4 Mb) have been studied relative to the distributions in cereals ...

Microsatellites or simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are distributed across both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes and have been widely used for genetic studies and molecular marker-assisted breeding in crops. Though an ordered draft sequence of hexaploid bread wheat have been announced, the researches about systemic analysis of SSRs for wheat still have not been reported so far. In the present s...

Camellia oleifera is an important edible oil woody plant in China. Lack of useful molecular markers hinders current genetic research on this tree species. Transcriptome sequencing of developing C. oleifera seeds generated 69,798 unigenes. A total of 6949 putative microsatellites were discovered among 6042 SSR-containing unigenes. Then, 150 simple sequence repeats (SSRs) were evaluated in 20 var...

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY Microsatellite markers were developed and characterized to analyze genetic diversity within Lagerstroemia cultivars and related species. • METHODS AND RESULTS Using simple sequence repeat (SSR)-enriched libraries, 11 species-specific polymorphic genomic SSRs were developed from L. indica 'Hong Die Fei Wu'. All primers were tested on 48 L. indica individuals ...

Microsatellites, or simple sequence repeats (SSRs), are one of the most informative and multi-purpose genetic markers exploited in plant functional genomics. However, the discovery of SSRs and development using traditional methods are laborious, time-consuming, and costly. Recently, the availability of high-throughput sequencing technologies has enabled researchers to identify a substantial num...

Background Eucalyptus globulus is the most planted hardwood species for pulpwood in temperate regions. Genomic researches in Eucalyptus have increased the information available in DNA sequences public databases and several structural and regulatory genes involved in the cellulose and lignin pathways are known. Functional genetic markers, while frequent in crop, are still scarce in forest specie...

Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) have been demonstrated to affect normal gene function to cause different genetic disorders. Several conserved and even partial functional SSR patterns were discovered in inherited orthologous disease genes. To explore a wide range of SSRs in genetic diseases, a system focuses on orthologous SSRs for disease genes through comparative genomics mechanism is construct...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Microsatellite primers (simple sequence repeats [SSRs]) were developed in Guibourtia ehie (Fabaceae, Detarioideae) to study population genetic structure and the history of African vegetation. METHODS AND RESULTS We isolated 18 polymorphic SSRs from a nonenriched genomic library. This set of primer pairs was tested on four populations, and the results showed two to 16 alle...