Exploiting an oil palm EST database for the development of gene-derived SSR markers and their exploitation for assessment of genetic diversity.

• Main Authors: Singh, Rajinder, Mohd Zaki, Noorhariza, Ngoot-Chin , Ting, Rosli, Rozana, Soon-Guan, Tan, Eng-Ti , Leslie Low, Ithnin, Maizura, Suan-Choo , Cheah
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences 2008
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14653/

A total of 5,521 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from oil palm were used to search for type and frequency of simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. Dimeric repeat motifs appeared to be the most abundant, followed by trinucleotide repeats. Redundancy was eliminated in the original EST set, resulting in...