Please read the attached file to get your answer.

Dear Mr. Tarafdar,

Your paper is about the usage of SSR in wheat genetic diversity. I have already known that SSR can be used in plants and forensic. I want to know if we can use SSR to investigate bacterial diversity in soils by uncultured method. Anyway, Thanks for your answer.

lynn

Yes it is possible.

Please see the above paper.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1471-8286.2005.01015.x/full

Dear Mr. Ioannis Ganopoulos,

Thank you so much for your answer. I checked your paper and it was found that the authors used SSR marker for isolated Fusarium species. In my case, I want to extract total DNA from soils and use SSR marker to investigate the bacterial diversity in that soil like T-RFLP. Therefore, I would like to get some reference papers to follow the idea and to get primers. Anway, thanks much for your kind help.

lynn

Dear Andrew,

Thanks much for your answer. I have done T-RFLP and sequencing to investigate the bacterial diversity in soil. But, now, I cannot do these methods bcoz of some inconvenient. And, I can do only SSR in our lab, so, I would like to know that we can use SSR markers in bacterial diversity in soil or not. I am clear now bcoz of your answer. Thank you.

lynn