Genetic Diversity and DNA Fingerprints of Three Important Aquatic Vegetables by EST-SSR Markers.

Twenty-two sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera), 46 taros (Colocasia esculenta) and 10 arrowheads (Sagittaria trifolia) were used as materials and combined with EST-SSR (expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeats) primers developed by our laboratory. Core primers were screened from a large number of primers that were able to distinguish all materials with a high frequency of polymorphisms. Six pairs, twenty pairs and three pairs of core primers were screened from sacred lotus, taro, and arrowhead, respectively.

Development of microsatellite markers by transcriptome sequencing in two species of Amorphophallus (Araceae).

Background: Amorphophallus is a genus of perennial plants widely distributed in the tropics or subtropics of West Africa and South Asia. Its corms contain a high level of water-soluble glucomannan; therefore, it has long been used as a medicinal herb and food source. Genetic studies of Amorphophallus have been hindered by a lack of genetic markers.