Table 2.

Polymorphism information content (PIC) of 21 SSR primer pairs analysed using 115 accessions from Saccharum, Erianthus, and Saccharum spp. hybrids.

No.	SSR markers	S. spontaneum	S. officinarum	S. barberi	S. robustum	S. sinense	Saccharum spp. hybrids	E. arundinaceus
1	SMC119CG	0.82	0.91	0.79	0.73	0.76	0.86	0.28
2	SMC7CUQ	0.88	0.84	0.67	0.85	0.62	0.84	0.38
3	SMC18SA	0.86	0.82	0.80	0.81	0.70	0.91	0.50
4	SMC22DUQ	0.88	0.89	0.83	0.73	0.61	0.88	0.59
5	SMC24DUQ	0.85	0.88	0.83	0.73	0.67	0.88	0.55
6	SMC31CUQ	0.90	0.88	0.64	0.83	0.81	0.91	0.76
7	SMC36BUQ	0.79	0.68	0.59	0.61	0.63	0.82	0.72
8	SMC278CS	0.93	0.77	0.65	0.81	0.81	0.86	0.78
9	SMC334BS	0.91	0.72	0.84	0.71	0.67	0.84	0.38
10	SMC336BS	0.92	0.88	0.84	0.71	0.71	0.88	0.73
11	SMC486CG	0.77	0.72	0.80	0.68	0.72	0.86	0.45
12	SMC569CS	0.61	0.77	0.49	0.73	0.61	0.83	0.55
13	SMC597CS	0.83	0.86	0.82	0.72	0.35	0.93	0.78
14	SMC703BS	0.82	0.60	0.56	0.77	0.64	0.92	0.88
15	SMC851MS	0.89	0.91	0.83	0.72	0.83	0.88	0.79
16	SMC1604SA	0.89	0.83	0.66	0.82	0.62	0.86	0.74
17	SMC1751CL	0.88	0.84	0.79	0.80	0.72	0.82	0.78
18	mSSCIR3	0.95	0.91	0.78	0.86	0.85	0.89	0.89
19	mSSCIR43	0.92	0.90	0.82	0.85	0.58	0.91	0.88
20	mSSCIR66	0.86	0.86	0.82	0.82	0.80	0.82	0.76
21	mSSCIR74	0.92	0.92	0.81	0.81	0.78	0.83	0.79
	Average	0.86	0.83	0.75	0.77	0.69	0.87	0.66