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Assessing the potential for polymorphism detection across different cereals using EST-SSR primer pairs developed from sorghum and pearl millet

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Title Assessing the potential for polymorphism detection across different cereals using EST-SSR primer pairs developed from sorghum and pearl millet
 
Creator Reddy, B R S
 
Subject Pearl Millet
Sorghum
 
Description An expressed sequence tag (EST) is a short sub-sequence of a transcribed nucleotide
sequence. ESTs represent portions of expressed genes. They may be used to identify
gene transcripts, which lead to prediction of their protein product, and eventually to
determination of their function. Thus ESTs are instrumental in gene discovery and gene
sequence determination. ESTs from several species can be used in the analysis of both
structural and functional relationships in these genomes. Simple sequence repeats
(SSRs) or microsatellites are ubiquitous in eukaryotic genomes. SSRs are composed of
tandernly repeated 1-6 bp units. SSRs are valued because of their abundance, variation,
wide distribution within the genome, multi-allelic nature and co-dominant inheritance.
The presence of SSRs in the transcripts of genes suggests that they may have a role in
gene expression or function. SSR markers extended to the transcribed part of the
genome are called Expressed Sequence Tag derived SSRs. Since a putative function
based on their corresponding ESTs can be deduced for such EST-SSRs, they represent a
class of functional markers. These sequences can be used to provide an estimate of
diversity in the expressed portion of the genome and may be useful for comparative
mapping, for tagging important traits of interest, and for additional map-based cloning
of important genes. Because these are from the transcribed part of the genome ESTSSRs
are often conserved across species and also across related genera in Poaceae. Thus
once primers for EST-SSR markers have been developed, these may be used across a
number of-related species and may actually prove superior to SSR markers extracted
from genomic libraries for diversity estimation, transferability, and comparative
mapping. Even though the polymorphism between the species is less using the ESTSSR
primer pairs, once developed they can be used across the species for gene diversity,
and comparative mapping studies with fewer inputs.
 
Date 2008
 
Type Thesis
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/7016/1/T%2064222.pdf
Reddy, B R S (2008) Assessing the potential for polymorphism detection across different cereals using EST-SSR primer pairs developed from sorghum and pearl millet. Masters thesis, ANGRAU.