Establishment of Novel Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) Markers from Transcriptome Data and Their Application in the Identification of Varieties.

, a member of the Calycanthaceae family, is a unique, traditional, and famous flowering economic tree species in China. Despite the existence of several varieties, only a few cultivars have been formally named. Currently, expression sequence tag-simple sequence repeat (EST-SSR) markers are extensively used to identify different species and varieties; a large number of microsatellites can be identified from transcriptome databases.