PIC values, which could avoid the bias estimation with
major alleles, are also a good indicator of the polymorphic levels of molecular markers. The PIC values were
high and varied, with a mean of 0.43 and range 0.04–0.76
(Table 2). The PIC values we estimated were comparable
to those from previous studies of SSR markers used with
rice cultivars (Lu et al., 2005; Pervaiz et al., 2009) but
were lower than those with rice landraces (Thomson et al.,
2007; Pervaiz et al., 2010)