Potential of (GATA)n microsatellites from rice for inter- and intra-specific variability studies.

"sequence analysis revealed that three subclones viz osia6 osih10 and os2e7 contained (gata) n repeats and hence were deposited in genbank with accession numbers af294726 (bankit 351397) af285877 (bankit 345999) and af 284424 (bankit 345056) respectively."

"AcknowledgementsAPD thanks the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi for the award of Senior Research Fellowship. International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines is thanked for providing DNA of 26 wilds, six cultivated rice varieties and three related genera. Directorate of Rice Research (DRR), Hyderabad is acknowledged for providing seed material of all the remaining rice genotypes used in our study. Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi and Agharkar Research Institute are acknowledged for providing seed material of maize and wheat, respectively. The authors thank USDA ARS, National Small Grains Collection, Aberdeen, U.S.A. for providing seeds of barley and oat. This work was supported by grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, U.S.A., #Grant No RF 95001, #327. The experiments described in this manuscript comply with the current laws of the country in which they were performed."