“…Due to this variability, microsatellite markers have been used for different genetic studies. Specifically for sugarcane, it is worthwhile to mention studies such as fingerprinting of Australian sugarcane clones (Piperidis et al, 2001), genotyping and fingerprinting of USA sugarcane cultivars (Pan et al, 2003a,b;Glynn et al, 2009), genetic diversity (Cordeiro et al, 2003), mapping of useful genes (Singh et al, 2005), genetic mapping , sugarcane genome study , cultivar identification (Pan et al, 2007), evolutionary relationships among species (Brown et al, 2007), use of EST-derived SSR for fingerprinting (Pinto et al, 2006), marker assisted selection (Pinto et al, 2011), etc. With the advances of sugarcane microsatellite (SSR) DNA genotyping technology, the sugarcane breeders are now able to efficiently and accurately determine the genetic identity of sugarcane varieties and reveal any sugarcane clone misidentifications (Pan et al, 2003a,b).…”