Table 1.

Diversity across 107 rice accessions from different sub-groups of rice using five SSR markers linked to the Saltol locus. The panel contained 82 varieties/landraces from Bangladesh, 9 from India, 15 from Sri Lanka and 1 from Philippines

Marker	Sample size	Major allele frequency	Mean alleles/locus	Mean QTL diversity	PIC
RM1287	107	0·60	3·00	0·56	0·49
AP3206f	107	0·92	3·00	0·16	0·15
RM3412b	107	0·27	7·00	0·82	0·80
RM493	107	0·28	6·00	0·79	0·76
RM7075	107	0·58	4·00	0·59	0·54
Mean	107	0·53	4·60	0·58	0·55