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A review of microsatellite markers and their applications in rice breeding programs to improve blast disease resistance.
International journal of molecular sciences - 14 Nov 2013
Miah Gous, Rafii Mohd Y, Ismail Mohd R, Puteh Adam B, Rahim Harun A, Islam Kh Nurul, Latif Mohammad Abdul
Abstract excerpt
Over the last few decades, the use of molecular markers has played an increasing role in rice breeding and genetics. Of the different types of molecular markers, microsatellites have been utilized most extensively, because they can be readily amplified by PCR and the large amount of allelic variation at each locus. Microsatellites are also known as simple sequence repeats (SSR), and they are typically composed of...
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