Table 2.

Number of bands, polymorphism information content, resolving power, and mean genetic similarity revealed by each of the 17 primers in 12 rice varieties

No.	Primer No.	PS*	nbp	npl	nb	rb/a	rb/l	PIC	Rp	MGS
(AG)n-based primers
1	807	(AG)8T	21	17	156	13.00	7.43	0.52	9.0	0.74
2	808	(AG)8C	9	8	68	5.67	7.56	0.53	4.0	0.71
3	809	(AG)8G	12	9	109	9.08	9.08	0.36	3.8	0.82
4	815	(CT)8G	10	7	97	8.08	9.70	0.32	3.8	0.82
5	834	(AG)8YT	11	7	112	9.33	10.18	0.25	3.3	0.87
6	835	(AG)8YC	15	13	80	6.67	5.33	0.68	5.0	0.71
7	836	(AG)8YA	18	13	131	10.92	7.28	0.53	7.1	0.76
8	884	HBH(AG)7	20	18	108	9.00	5.40	0.70	8.7	0.62
Mean			14.5	11.5	108	8.97	7.75	0.49	5.6	0.76
(GA)n-based primers
9	810	(GA)8T	12	7	128	10.67	10.67	0.18	2.7	0.91
10	811	(GA)8C	9	7	78	6.50	8.67	0.40	2.7	0.81
11	812	(GA)8A	18	9	142	11.83	7.89	0.42	4.0	0.87
12	822	(TC)8A	12	10	70	5.83	5.83	0.63	3.7	0.74
13	840	(GA)8YT	11	8	88	7.33	8.00	0.44	3.3	0.82
14	841	(GA)8YC	14	9	108	9.00	7.71	0.46	4.0	0.83
15	842	(GA)8YG	22	22	120	10.00	5.45	0.75	14.3	0.50
16	885	BHB(GA)7	19	10	190	15.83	10.00	0.25	4.0	0.89
Mean			14.6	10.2	115.5	9.62	8.03	0.44	4.8	0.80
17	872	(GATA)4	13	10	74	6.17	5.69	0.60	7.67	0.58

^*PS: Primer sequence;

Y: T or C; n _bp: number of band positions (loci); n _pl: number of polymorphic loci; n _b: number of bands; r _b/a: mean number of bands/accession; r _b/l: mean number of bands/locus; PIC: polymorphism information content; Rp: resolving power; MGS: mean genetic similarity