“…Amongst the various types of molecular markers used, Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers are generally used because of their higher reproducibility, co-dominance, abundance, wide distribution throughout the genome, easy scorability and multi-allelic variation (Powell et al, 1996). SSR have been used for genetic diversity analysis in a number of crops including Indian bread wheat (Mir et al, 2011), rice (Rahman et al, 2012) and maize (Sivaranjini et al, 2014). A large number of SSR markers have been developed and extensively characterized in B. rapa (Suwabe et al, 2002 andRamchiary et al, 2011) and B. napus (Wang et al, 2012 andLi et al, 2013).…”