“…The converted SCARs are highly reliable, relatively inexpensive, and can be easily manipulated. Thus, they are valuable in practical breeding programs where large numbers of individuals need to be genotyped at low cost (Kelly et al, 2003), and for map-based gene cloning (Bradeen and Simon, 1998;Qu et al, 1998;). In the literature, there are examples of converting AFLP markers into SCAR markers (Shan et al, 1999;Boukar et al, 2004;Shirasawa et al, 2004).…”