TRANSFERABILITY OF CROSS CEREAL SPECIES SSR MARKERS TO FINGER MILLET (Eleusine coracana L. Gaertn)

CHANDRASHEKHAR ANGADI¹*, P. V. VAIJAYANTHI², A. MOHAN RAO³, S. RAMESH⁴, P. RAVISHANKAR⁵, M.V.C. GOWDA^6
1Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Gandhi Krishi Vignana Kendra, Bengaluru , 560065, India
²Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Gandhi Krishi Vignana Kendra, Bengaluru , 560065, India
³Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Gandhi Krishi Vignana Kendra, Bengaluru , 560065, India
⁴Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Gandhi Krishi Vignana Kendra, Bengaluru , 560065, India
⁵All India Coordinated Small Millets Improvement Project, University of Agricultural Sciences, Gandhi Krishi Vignana Kendra, Bengaluru, 560065, India
⁶All India Coordinated Small Millets Improvement Project, University of Agricultural Sciences, Gandhi Krishi Vignana Kendra, Bengaluru, 560065, India
* Corresponding Author : chandru4103@gmail.com

Received : 28-06-2016     Accepted : 14-07-2016     Published : 21-10-2016
Volume : 8     Issue : 49       Pages : 2059 - 2062
Int J Agr Sci 8.49 (2016):2059-2062

Keywords : Finger millet, SSR markers, Transferability
Academic Editor : Mallikarjun M G, Dr Mahadevaiah C
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : The author gratefully acknowledge AICSMIP and Genetics and Plant Breeding department, UAS, GKVK, Bengaluru, for providing facility to carry out this research work.
Author Contribution : The present reported work is a part of PhD thesis research.

Finger millet [Eleusine coracana L. Gaertn.], belonging to the family poaceae, is a crop of considerable potential. The use of DNA markers in general and SSR markers in particular in finger millet breeding is still in its infancy due to their limited availability. There are few reported attempts of developing genomic/EST SSR markers in finger millet. A set 94 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers developed from cereal crops (pearl millet, foxtail millet, oat and wheat) were evaluated for their transferability to finger millet. Forty-nine of 61 SSR markers from pearl millet were transferable to finger millet. Although fewer SSR markers of other cereals such as wheat, foxtail millet and oat, all of them were transferable to finger millet. The present study provides clues for transferability of cross cereal species/genera EST SSR markers to genomic resources-limited crops such as finger millet.