Using DNA markers in plant breeding with marker‐assisted selection (MAS) could greatly
improve the precision and efficiency of selection, leading to the accelerated development of …

The status of rice as a model crop and the sequencing of the indica and japonica genomes
have provided breeders with the necessary tools for marker assisted breeding. Simple …

Breeding by design has been an aspiration of researchers in the plant sciences for a
decade. With the rapid development of genomics-based genotyping platforms and available …

Increasing world population, shrinking cultivable rice (Oryza sativa L.) land area, water
scarcity and excess, evolution of new biotypes of pests and diseases, and climate change …

One of the major challenges in genetics has been to identify the nucleotide polymorphisms
responsible for phenotypic variation. Through intensive analysis, several major quantitative …

Future world food security requires continued and sustainable increase in rice production.
Much of this increase has to come from new high yielding cultivars with resistances to …

Rice is a model system for crop genomics studies. Much of the early work on rice genomics
focused on analyzing genome-wide genetic variation to further understand rice gene …

The biotechnology tool of MAS has irreversibly changed the disciplines of conventional rice
breeding. Molecular markers are indispensable tools for measuring the diversity of rice …

Molecular markers play a crucial role in the improvement of rice. To benefit from these
markers, genotyping is carried out to identify the differences at a specific position in the …

Dramatic changes in climatic conditions that supplement the biotic and abiotic stresses pose
severe threat to the sustainable rice production and have made it a difficult task for rice …