Development and mapping of simple sequence repeat markers for pearl millet from data mining of expressed sequence tags.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] is a staple food and fodder crop of marginal agricultural lands of sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian subcontinent. It is also a summer forage crop in the southern USA, Australia and Latin America, and is the preferred mulch in Brazilian no-till soybean production systems. Use of molecular marker technology for pearl millet genetic improvement has been limited. Progress is hampered by insufficient numbers of PCR-compatible co-dominant markers that can be used readily in applied breeding programmes. Therefore, we sought to develop additional SSR markers for the pearl millet research community.

Results

A set of new pearl millet SSR markers were developed using available sequence information from 3520 expressed sequence ta

SUBMITTER: Senthilvel S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2632669 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature