In recent years, extensive efforts have been made to develop
EST-SSR markers in mungbean for functional genomics studies.
SSR markers derived from ESTs are powerful not only because
they are present in expressed regions of the genome, but also
because EST sequences of many crop species are deposited
in databases, providing a fast, cost-effective way to develop
markers. Isemura et al. (2012) constructed a genetic linkage
map using EST-SSR markers from soybean. However, due to
the availability of ESTs in two mungbean cultivars (VC1973A
and Jangannokdu), EST-SSRs have since been identified in the