Genome-wide microsatellites in amaranth: development, characterization, and cross-species transferability.

ABSTRACT: Amaranth (Amaranthus spp.) belonging to Amaranthaceae, is known as "the crop of the future" because of its incredible nutritional quality. Amaranthus spp. (> 70) have a huge diversity in terms of their plant morphology, production and nutritional quality; however, these species are not well characterized at molecular level due to unavailability of robust and reproducible molecular markers, which is essential for crop improvement programs. In the present study, 13,051 genome-wide microsatellite motifs were identified and subsequently utilized for marker development using A. hypochondriacus (L.) genome (JPXE01.1). Out of those, 1538 motifs were found with flanking sequences suitable for primer designing. Among designed primers, 225 were utilized for validation of

SUBMITTER: Tiwari KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8339182 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature