Production of pure lines is an important step in biological studies and breeding of many crop
plants. The major types of pure lines for biological studies and breeding include doubled …

Production of doubled haploids (DH s) is an important methodology to speed the process of
breeding and development of mapping populations in crops. The procedure for DH …

Summarizing landmark research, Volume 2 of this essential series furnishes information on
the availability of germplasm resources that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding …

In cereals, interspecific and intergeneric hybridizations (wide crosses) which yield
karyotypically stable hybrid plants have been used as starting points to widen the genetic …

Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are valuable molecular markers in many plant species. In
common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), which is characteristic of its large genomes and …

Nineteen commercial hexaploid wheat varieties were crossed with the maize F1 hybrid
'Seneca 60'. Fertilization frequencies ranged from 32.1% to 47.5% of pollinated florets …

CIMMYT is an internationally funded, nonprofit scientific research and training organization.
Headquartered in Mexico, the Center is engaged in a worldwide research program for …

All 10 chromosomes of maize (Zea mays, 2 n= 2x= 20) were recovered as single additions to
the haploid complement of oat (Avena sativa, 2 n= 6x= 42) among F1 plants generated from …

The genetic constitution of resistance to Fusarium head blight (FHB, scab) caused by
Fusarium graminearum in the Chinese wheat cultivar Sumai 3 and the Japanese cultivar …

Haploids are autonomous, sporophytic plants that have gametophytic chromosome number
because they originate from a gametic cell in the embryo sac or in the pollen grain. The …