Table 6

In silico determination of potential cross-transferability of the SSRs between Phytophthora species

Primer transferability ^a

100%

95–99 %

90–94 %

P. infestans – P. sojae

7

21

91

P. infestans – P. ramorum

6

8

50

P. sojae – P. ramorum

27

126

282

P. infestans – P. sojae – P. ramorum

4

19

61

^a When an EST or transcript sequence matched primer pairs designed from species 1 and species 2, they were counted as one primer pair.

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