Contribution of microsatellites to sugar cane breeding program in Mauritius

Code (CO)	MSI01P3582
Author (AU)	Jannoo, N. Forget, L. Dookun, A.
Title - English (ET)	Contribution of microsatellites to sugar cane breeding program in Mauritius
Meeting (MT)	24th ISSCT Congress, Brisbane, September 01
Document Type(DT)	periodical article
Date of publication (DP)	2001
Series (SE)	Proc. int. Soc. Sug. Cane Technol.
Source (SO)	24(2): 637-639
Language of text (LT)	En
Language of summaries (LS)	En Fr es
Abstract (AB)	Sugarcane microsatellite libraries have recently been developed. Here, we report the efficiency of some microsatellite primers to generate polymorphic and easily scorable markers in sugar cane. Primers selected proved to be very efficient when applied to test for legitimacy of clones, to identify contaminants in nurseries and for diversity studies. We also investigated the amplification of microsatellite primers on DNA extracted using an alkaline treatment method, and this technique looks promising.
Descriptors - English (DE)	Sugarcane legitimacy test Biotechnology diversity studies alkaline treatment
Descriptors - Geographic (DG)	Mauritius
Sort Key 1(K1)	Sugarcane
Sort Key 2 (K2)	Biotechnology
Date record entered (DA)	2001-09-26
Language of analysis (LA)	En
MSIRI Staff (MS)	BIOTECH