... frequency and distribution of SSRs in castor bean ESTs, (2) the establishment and validation of EST- SSR markers for detection of polymorphism in castor bean, and (3) the assessment of genetic ... an increasing need for distinguishing the varieties reliably, establishing their purity, and fingerprinting released varieties, hybrids and the parental lines of castor bean germplasm held in ... doubt, the polymorphic EST- SSR markers developed herein will provide robust genetic markers for further investigation of the origin and evolution of castor bean, though the geographic structuring of...