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Tea is an important plantation crop of India. Genetic improvement of tea is slow due to several factors such as woody perennial in nature, long gestation period, lack of mutants. Additionaly, being highly cross pollinated crop, it is highly heterozygous in nature. Thus DNA markers such as SSRs will be immense helpful for genetic improvement of tea, evolutionary study, DNA fingerprinting etc. Currently this database contain more than 9 million SSRs of tea.

Funded by National Tea Research Foundation (NTRF), Kolkata.

Developed by ICAR-National Institute for Plant Biotechnology (NIPB), Delhi