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...