“…Recently, molecular markers have been developed and used to identify several characteristics controlling flower longevity (De Beneditti et al, 2003, 2005, resistance to disease (Onozaki et al, 1999(Onozaki et al, , 2004Scovel et al, 2001;Yagi et al, 2006), and double flowers (Scovel et al, 1998) in carnation breeding programs. Molecular markers have been also utilized to confirm interspecific hybrids (Nimura et al, 2003(Nimura et al, , 2006 and variety identification (Smulders et al, 2000(Smulders et al, , 2003.…”