@article{icrisat1542,
           title = {Development and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite markers in taro (Colocasia esculenta)},
       publisher = {National Research Council Canada},
            year = {2002},
          author = {E S Mace and I D Godwin},
           pages = {823--832},
          volume = {45},
            note = {The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
(ACIAR) project CS2/94/43, and the collaboration received
through the AusAID-funded Taro Genetic Resources project.
Additonally, the technical support provided by Dr. Giovanni
Cordeiro and Dr. Tina Maguire is gratefully acknowledged.},
         journal = {Genome},
          number = {5},
             url = {http://oar.icrisat.org/1542/},
        abstract = {Microsatellite-containing sequences were isolated from enriched genomic libraries of taro (Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott). The sequencing of 269 clones yielded 77 inserts containing repeat motifs. The majority of these (81.7\%) were dinucleotide or trinucleotide repeats. The GT/CA repeat motif was the most common, accounting for 42\% of all repeat types. From a total of 43 primer pairs designed, 41 produced markers within the expected size range. Sixteen (39\%) were polymorphic when screened against a restricted set of taro genotypes from Southeast Asia and Oceania, with an average of 3.2 alleles detected on each locus. These markers represent a useful resource for taro germplasm management, genome mapping, and marker-assisted selection.}
}