Exploring genetic variability within lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) and across related legumes using a newly developed set of microsatellite markers

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5607-5625

  Verma, Priyanka ^a,b   Sharma, Tilak R ^c   Srivastava, Prem S ^b   Abdin, M Z ^b   Bhatia, Sabhyata ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENOME RESEARCH   (India)

^b HAMDARD UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c CSK HIMACHAL PRADESH AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cross genera transferability; Enriched library; Genetic diversity; Lentil; Microsatellites; SSRs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GERMPLASM; LEGUME; LENTIL; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MUNG BEAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEA; PLANT BREEDING; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ALLELE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT GENOME; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

LENS CULINARIS; PISUM SATIVUM; VIGNA RADIATA;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PLANT DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ALLELES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PLANT; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GENOMICS; LENS PLANT; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84906935027     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-014-3431-z     Document Type: Article

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