“…A high conservation of microsatellite loci has been observed between tree taxa. This conservation has propitiated high transferability indexes between Citrus (Kijas et al, 1995), Prunus (Dirlewanger et al, 2002;Wunsch and Hormaza, 2002;Decroocq et al, 2003), Vitis (Sefc et al, 1999), Elaeis (Billotte et al, 2001), Picea (Hodgetts et al, 2001), Pinus (Shepherd et al, 2002), Malus and Pyrus (Yamamoto et al, 2001), and Olea (Rallo et al, 2003). Already in Gramineae, in the few accomplished studies, the transferability of microsatellite markers has been low (Brown et al, 1996;Bryan et al, 1997;Röder et al, 1998;Stephenson et al, 1998).…”