SSR mining in oil palm EST database: application in oil palm germplasm diversity studies.

• Main Authors: Ngoot-Chin, Ting, Mohd Zaki, Noorhariza, Rosli, Rozana, Eng-Ti , Leslie Low, Ithnin, Maizura, Suan-Choo , Chia, Soon-Guan , Tan, Rajinder, Singh
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Indian Academy of Sciences 2010
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16819/1/SSR%20mining%20in%20oil%20palm%20EST%20database.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16819/

This study reports on the detection of additional expressed sequence tags (EST) derived simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers for the oil palm. A large collection of 19243 Elaeis guineensis ESTs were assembled to give 10258 unique sequences, of which 629 ESTs were found to contain 722 SSRs with a var...