The past decade has seen a tremendous shift toward using next-generation sequencing
(NGS) technologies for development of powerful tools to identify underlying genes for both …

High‐resolution genome analysis technologies provide an unprecedented level of insight
into structural diversity across crop genomes. Low‐cost discovery of sequence variation has …

In the past decade, next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms have changed the impact
of sequencing on our knowledge of crop genomes and gene regulation. These techniques …

Seeds play a critical role in ensuring food security for the earth's 8 billion people. There is
great biodiversity in plant seed content traits worldwide. Consequently, the development of …

With the fact of growing global population, changing climate, and environmental pressure,
there is an urgent need to accelerate breeding novel crops with higher production, drought …

In most crop breeding programs, the rate of yield increment is insufficient to cope with the
increased food demand caused by a rapidly expanding global population. In plant breeding …

Molecular breeding (MB) may be defined in a broad-sense as the use of genetic
manipulation performed at DNA molecular levels to improve characters of interest in plants …

The availability of complete genome sequences, along with other genomic resources for
Arabidopsis, rice, pigeon pea, soybean and other crops, has revolutionized our …

Genetic markers have long been used for characterization of plant genetic diversity and
exploitation in crop improvement. The advent of DNA marker technology (during 1980s) has …

Background DNA markers improved the productivity and accuracy of classical plant
breeding by means of marker-assisted selection (MAS). The enormous number of …