Recently-developed molecular markers are becoming powerful tools, with applications in
crop genetics and improvement. Microsatellites, or simple sequence repeats (SSRs), are …

Capsicum frutescens, one of the domesticated species of pepper grown worldwide, is
thought to be highly advantageous due to its strong resistance against plant pathogenesis …

Sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) is an important sugar and bioenergy crop with a high
aneuploidy, complex genomes and extreme heterozygosity. A good understanding of …

White clover (Trifolium repens L.) is an important perennial legume forage with high
productivity and quality. To strengthen the basic research on the genetic characteristics …

Celery (Apium graveolens L.) is one of the most economically important vegetables
worldwide, but genetic and genomic resources supporting celery molecular breeding are …

Various methods have been used to identify cultivares of olive trees; herein we used
different bioinformatics algorithms to propose new tools to classify 10 cultivares of olive …

The Saccharum species members are extremely complex allopolyploids. In this study, sixty
Saccharum spp. hybrids were analyzed using simple sequence repeat (SSR) primers to …

Common rye (Secale cereale L.) is one of the most important cereals in Europe.
Nevertheless, its germplasm collections are among the least numerous compared with …

Identification of agronomic traits tightly linked to molecular markers is a major footstep to
implement the marker assisted selection in breeding programmes. Sugarcane is the major …

Precise identification of cotton cultivars and hybrids is requisite to facilitate management of
germplasm resources and successful hybridization programs. Fingerprinting based on …