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African Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 8 (3), pp. 375-379, 4 February, 2009 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/AJB ISSN 1684–5315 © 2009 Academic Journals

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Genetic diversity of Pakistani maize genotypes using chromosome specific simple sequence repeat (SSR) primer sets Zamarud Shah1*, Iqbal Munir1 Shahid Ali2, Arshad Iqbal1, Saqib Mumtaz1, Rab Nwaz3 and Zahoor Ahmed Swati1 1

Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faculty of Crop Production Sciences, NWFP Agricultural University Peshawar, Pakistan. 2 Department of Biotechnology, University of Malakand, NWFP Pakistan. 3 Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Crop Production Sciences NWFP Agricultural University Peshawar, Pakistan. Accepted 30 October, 2007

For improvement of maize crop presence of genetic diversity in the germplasm is very important. This study was conducted to determine genetic diversity among 17 Pakistani maize genotypes using 10 simple sequence repeat (SSR) primer sets. All the amplification products were in the range of