Development and characterization of EST-SSR markers in (Poaceae).

Premise Of The Study: (Poaceae) is one of the dominant species of the desert steppe in the eastern Eurasian grasslands. Simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers were developed for use in genetic diversity studies of this species.

Methods And Results: A total of 1954 potentially polymorphic loci were obtained by comparing transcriptome data of eight different individuals.