Development and diversity of Andean-derived, gene-based microsatellites for common bean (<it>Phaseolus vulgaris </it>L.)

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Gene-based (genic) microsatellites are a useful tool for plant genetics and simple sequence repeat loci can often be found in coding regions of the genome. While EST sequencing can be used to discover genic microsatellites, direct sc...

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Main Authors: Giraldo Martha C, Torres Monica, Blair Matthew W, Pedraza Fabio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-07-01
Series:BMC Plant Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2229/9/100