“…In recent years a number of molecular markers such as random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) (Hu and Quiros, 1991;Munthali et al, 1992), amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) (Vos et al, 1995), simple sequence repeats (SSR) (Zietkiewicz et al, 1994) and intersimple sequence repeats (ISSR) (Salimath et al, 1995;Wolfe and Randle, 2001) have been widely used to detect genetic diversity in plants (Karp et al, 1996;Wolfe and Liston, 1998;Nan et al, 2003;Tang et al, 2003). In particular, ISSR markers can be highly variable within a species and have the advantage over RAPD markers that they use longer primers that allow more stringent annealing temperatures and reveal many more polymorphic fragments.…”