Abstract:A total of 38.76 Mb of publicly available DNA sequence in two phytopathogens, Fusarium graminearum, Magnaporthe grisea were searched for mono- to hexanucleotide simple sequence repeat (SSR or microsatellite) to determine the type, size and frequency. A total of 4 679 SSRs were observed in genomic DNA with criteria of SSR length>15 bp and 80% matches.Total length of SSRs is 96.2kb, constituting 0.27% of genomic DNA in F.graminearum. While 16 398 SSRs were observed in genomic DNA sequence in M.grisea with the same criteria. The average density is one SSRs every 7.7 kb in genomic sequence in F.graminearum and every 2.36 kb in genomic DNA of M.grisea. The most abundance microsatellite is pentanucleotide SSR, following by hexanucleotide SSR in F.graminearum; while mono- and trinucleotide SSR were the most frequent repeat in M.grisea. The least SSRs were dinucleotide repeats in both. These results showed that two phytopathogenic fungi exhibit quite different preferences for SSR type and distribution, and overall microsatellite number, though both belong to ascomycetes, genome size were very similar.