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. 2016 Jan 27;16(Suppl 1):11. doi: 10.1186/s12870-015-0689-9

Table 1.

Comparison of SNP and CAPS markers application in wheat and barley (a), and corresponding frequencies of ‘true’ SNPs in genomes (b)

Barley Bread wheat
A. Effectivity of markers
SNP Very good, high-throughput Very good, high-throughput
CAPS Very good, manual operation Poor, manual operation
B. Frequencies of SNPs (one ‘true’ SNP per number of bpa)
Entire genome 189-240 540-569
GOIb 7-64 335-813

aBase pair, bGene of Interest.