“…Therefore, these agro-morphological traits need to be augmented by molecular markers for better resolution and more precise characterization. Over the past decades molecular markers especially simple sequence repeats (SSRs) have been extensively used with considerable success in several crop species including rice (Das et al, 2013;Nachimuthu et al, 2015), wheat (Chen et al, 2012), pigeon pea (Kumari et al, 2014), peanut (Ren et al, 2014) and jute (Banerjee et al, 2012) for germplasm characterisation, assessment of genetic diversity and population structure analysis since these markers offer many advantages over conventional morphological markers viz., abundant, reproducible, environment and crop stage independent, high polymorphism, hyper variability and co-dominant nature (Parida et al, 2009;Ganopoulos et al, 2011). Moreover, ISSRs (Inter simple sequence repeats) have also been used in many crop species like rice (Al-Turki and Basahi, 2015), chickpea (Rao et al, 2007), mustard (Gohl and Mehta, 2014) and cotton (Liu and Wendel, 2001) for genetic diversity analysis due to their abundance, higher polymorphism, and low cost (Powell et al, 1996).…”