Abstract
Introduction: Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) is economically the most important fruit crop in the world. There are 8,000 to 10,000 grape cultivars existing worldwide today. Characterization and determination of grapevine cultivars are sometimes difficult using conventional methods. Molecular approaches might be implemented in cultivar identification and breeding programs, since morphological markers are time-consuming and prone to equivocal interpretations (MARGIT et al. 2005). The high polymorphism of microsatellites (or SSR simple sequence repeats), a special class of tandem repeat loci involving a base motif of 1-6 bp of DNA repeated up to 100 times, allows cultivar identification, and their co-dominant Mendelian inheritance allows the reconstruction of crosses (VOUILLAMOZ et al. 2003).
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