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Development and Characterization of 1,906 EST-SSR Markers from Unigenes in Jute (Corchorus spp.).
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Zhang Liwu, Li Yanru, Tao Aifen, Fang Pingping, Qi Jianmin
Abstract excerpt
Jute, comprising white and dark jute, is the second important natural fiber crop after cotton worldwide. However, the lack of expressed sequence tag-derived simple sequence repeat (EST-SSR) markers has resulted in a large gap in the improvement of jute. Previously, de novo 48,914 unigenes from white jute were assembled. In this study, 1,906 EST-SSRs were identified from these assembled uingenes. Among these...
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