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Development and use of chloroplast microsatellites in Phaseolus spp. and other legumes.
Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) - 1 Jul 2009
Angioi S A, Desiderio F, Rau D, Bitocchi E, Attene G, Papa R
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Chloroplast microsatellites (cpSSRs) provide a powerful tool to study the genetic variation and evolution of plants. We have investigated the usefulness of 39 primer pairs tagging cpSSR loci on a set of eight different genera of Leguminosae (Papilionoideae subfamily) and five species belonging to the genus Phaseolus. Thirty-six 'universal' primer pairs were retrieved from the literature, one was re-designed and a...
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