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European pear (Pyrus communis L.) is among the important fruit species for which only few genetic studies have been carried out. Available evidence indicates that simple sequence repeats (SSR) are very useful as molecular markers because they are codominant, highly polymorphic, abundant and reproducible. The present paper reports more than 100 apple SSR markers in two populations of European pear; a total of 41 SSR markers were then positioned on a genetic linkage map of the cross ‘Passe Crassane’ × ‘Harrow Sweet’ and 31 in the map ‘Abbè Fétel’ × ‘Max Red Bartlett’. Syntenic relationships between pear and apple maps have been considered for the chromosomes carrying two or more SSR markers. The alignment among the two maps supports the colinearity of the two genomes with respect both to identification and to orientation of the linkage groups.
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We are grateful to Dr. Francesco Salamini for critical reviews of this manuscript and for all his suggestions. This research was supported with funds from MiPAF (Ministero delle Politiche Agricole e Forestali, Rome, Italy) and from the National Horticultural Research Institute (RDA), Suwon, Republic of Korea.
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Pierantoni, L., Cho, KH., Shin, IS. et al. Characterisation and transferability of apple SSRs to two European pear F1 populations. Theor Appl Genet 109, 1519–1524 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-004-1775-9
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