Table 1.
Details of plant material used in the study.
Fig 1.
Quality score during sequencing cycles of HiSeqTM 2000.
Table 2.
Length distribution of clustered sequences.
Fig 2.
Distribution analysis of major classes of microsatellites in safflower genome.
Fig 3.
Frequency distribution of SSRs with most and least represented repeat motif in each class.
Fig 4.
Characterization of di- and tri-nucleotide microsatellites discovered in safflower genome.
Fig 5.
Reiteration units observed for various classes of SSRs in safflower genome.
Fig 6.
Functional annotation of microsatellite sequences.
Fig 7.
Distribution of annotated genomic microsatellites of C. tinctorius L. among the Gene Ontology functional classes: Biological process, Cellular component and Molecular function (Level 2).
Table 3.
Characteristics of 93 polymorphic SSR markers developed for Carthamus tinctorius L.
Table 4.
Repeat motif type and their rate of polymorphism observed in the present study.
Fig 8.
Cross-species transferability of 93 polymorphic safflower microsatellite markers in various species of genus Carthamus.
Fig 9.
Phylogenetic dendrogram based on 93 polymorphic microsatellite markers, elucidating the genetic diversity and relationships among and between safflower accessions and its wild relatives.