Microsatellites are some of the most highly variable repetitive DNA tracts in genomes. Few
studies focus on whether the characteristic instability of microsatellites is linked to …

Background The adverse environmental conditions impose extreme limitation to growth and
plant development, restricting the genetic potential and reflecting on plant yield losses. The …

Background Sheepgrass [Leymus chinensis (Trin.) Tzvel.] is an important perennial forage
grass across the Eurasian Steppe and is known for its adaptability to various environmental …

Pomegranate is a valuable crop that is grown commercially in many parts of the world. Wild
species have been reported from India, Turkmenistan and Socotra. Pomegranate fruit has a …

Sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) is one of the major cultivated and most-consumed citrus
species. With the goal of enhancing the genomic resources in citrus, we surveyed …

Tea, being one of the most popular beverages requires large set of molecular markers for
genetic improvement of quality, yield and stress tolerance. Identification of functionally …

Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are popular and important molecular markers that exist
widely in plants. Here, we conducted a comprehensive identification and comparative …

Tandem repeats (TRs) extensively exist in the genomes of prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
Based on the sequenced genomes and gene annotations of 31 plant and algal species in …

Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) are important resource for gene discovery, gene
expression and its regulation, molecular marker development, and comparative genomics …

Microsatellites (SSRs) are tandem repeat sequences in eukaryote genomes, including plant
cytoplasmic genomes. The mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) has been shown to vary in size …