The markers located in the earlier identified genomic region associated with the traits improving seedling vigor of rice under DSR were screened. All the gene files for the reference genome were retrieved from RGAP. The selected markers then screened for the donor specificity using the merged variant file created using BCF tools. All the shortlisted markers were aligned with the reference genome using BLAST and the markers showing alignment at the multiple loci were rejected. Only the high specificity markers aligning at desired locus with low e-value were selected.
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