“…The first class of molecular markers including Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD; Bhat et al, 1999) and Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP; Laurentin and Karlovsky, 2006) were designed and employed mainly for genetic diversity studies. The second class of markers involved basically Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) types such as Inter-Simple Sequence Repeats (ISSR; Kim et al, 2002), Expressed Sequence Tags-SSR (EST-SSR; Wei et al, 2008, 2011; Badri et al, 2014; Sehr et al, 2016), cDNA-SSR (Spandana et al, 2012; Wang et al, 2012b; Zhang H. et al, 2012; Surapaneni et al, 2014; Wu et al, 2014b), Genome sequence-SSR (gSSR; Dixit et al, 2005; Wei X. et al, 2014; Uncu et al, 2015; Dossa, 2016; Yu et al, 2016), Chloroplast SSR (cpSSR, Sehr et al, 2016). By compiling all developed SSR marker resources, there are in total more than 7,000 validated and 100,000 non-validated SSR markers available for sesame research.…”