Table 8.

Comparative account of SSR marker statistics of the present and previous studies in safflower.

	Present study	(Chapman et al., 2009)	(Hamdan et al., 2011)	(Barati and Arzani, 2012)	(Lee et al., 2014)	(Derakhshan et al., 2014)
Number of accessions sampled	124	27	10	48	100	42
Number of polymorphic SSR markers	93	104	64	42	30	33
Allelic range	2–8	2–15	2–8	2–8	2–7	2–8
Average number of alleles per locus	3.3	6	3.2	3.4	2.8	3.8
Mean expected heterozygosity (He)	0.438	0.54	0.52	0.37	0.386	*
PIC	0.38	0.32	*	0.32	0.325	0.3

^*Not available.