A novel statistical method for assessing SSR variation in autotetraploid alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.)

The level of variation of simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers in cultivated alfalfa from American, Australian and Chinese sources was evaluated using a novel autotetraploid statistical method to calculate the effective number of alleles, the allele frequencies and heterozygosity. We used 19 SSR pri...

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Main Authors: Zhi-Peng Liu, Gong-She Liu, Qing-Chuan Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2007-03-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572007000300015