“…Several molecular markers, such as isozymes (Resende et al, 2004), randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) (Zacarias et al, 2004), amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLP) (Chavarriaga-Aguirre et al, 1999), simple sequence repeats (SSR) (Chavarriaga-Aguirre et al, 1999;Siqueira et al, 2009;Lekha et al, 2010), and simple sequence repeats from expressed sequence tags (EST-SSR) (Kunkaew et al, 2011;Sraphet et al, 2011), have been used to analyze the genetic diversity and relationships among cassava cultivars. However, retrotransposon markers, which are highly promising for phylogenetic studies, gene mapping, and genetic diversity (Kalendar et al, 1999), have not yet been analyzed in cassava cultivars.…”