… Each applied SSR primer-pair generated reliable microsatellite alleles in all 66 apple
cultivars. A total of 55 polymorphic alleles were amplified and the number of alleles per marker …

… An additional diverse set of 45 apple cultivars, including old Spanish and international cultivars…
Table 1 Apple cultivars used as reference in this study, indicating reported parentage and …

… map of the apple cultivars ‘Telamon’ and ‘Braeburn’, based on AFLP and SSR markers. ‘…
Therefore, high quality genetic linkage maps of these two cultivars offer great opportunities …

… in order to determine the relationships among cultivars. Considering all populations (Spanish
and commercial cultivars) we found 119 alleles with the 10 microsatellites; 10 out of 119 …

… A new set of 148 apple microsatellite markers has been developed and mapped on the …
We find these cultivars suitable because they have been tested with most apple SSR markers …

… simple Mendelian segregation of apple microsatellite markers provide a potential system for
… parentage analysis of apple cultivars. The genotypes of the 21 cultivars for six markers with …

… the highest polymorphism in the set of reference cultivars. The polymorphism of the microsatellite
markers allowed us to specifically identify 35 of the traditional and indigenous cultivars. …

… have been widely used for genetic variability assessment and cultivar identification in a … of
microsatellite-based markers, SSR and ISSR, for molecular characterisation of apple cultivars. …

… apple cultivars with higher quality and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. The genetic
base of apple and the … apple would certainly be expanded by including wild Malus species in …

… mutated cultivars were identical with their progenitors. We proved that microsatellite
markers were useful for evaluation of genetic resources, collection management and cultivar …