identified seven polymorphic
microsatellite loci based on polymorphism screening of 93
designed primer pairs in a panel of 10 mungbean accessions.
These markers were characterized which produced 2–5 alleles
in 34 mungbean accessions with the observed and expected
heterozygosity values from 0 to 0.088 and from 0.275 to
0.683, respectivelyCompared to other legume crops, a few
SSR markers are available for mungbean. The success of
generating a genome map of black gram based on adzuki
markers (due to their close phylogenetic relationship) has
led to the use of adzuki bean SSR markers in mungbean
. Of the 78 adzuki markers examined,
27 were useful for screening polymorphisms in mungbean.
Nineteen primers designed based on these markers positioned on each linkage group were used to examine 415 cultivated,
189 wild, and 11 intermediate mungbean accessions. In
this study, a higher number of alleles was detected in wild
mungbean than in cultivated mungbean, and the SSR marker
allelic diversity differed depending on the region . Several studies aimed at finding a novel set
of SSR markers in mungbean . Initial work was performed to develop markers
through high-throughput sequencing . A total of 1,493 microsatellite regions were
isolated from 454 pyrosequencing shotgun reads, and among
the 192 pairs of SSR primers evaluated in 17 mungbean
accessions, polymorphism was detected at 60 loci, ranging
from two to six alleles (average of 2.683) per locus. The
polymorphism information content (PIC) values ranged from
0.0555 to 0.6907, which is similar to previous findings . Moreover, the SSRs could
potentially be used to construct linkage maps and for genetic
improvement of mungbean ;
however, all of the SSRs were not associated with linkage
groups.