The use of crop wild relatives (CWR) genes to improve crop performance is well established
with important examples dating back more than 60 years. In this paper, we review available …

For addressing potential food shortages, a fundamental tradeoff exists between investing
more resources to increasing productivity of existing crops, as opposed to increasing crop …

Improved genotypes developed by plant breeding remain pivotal to global food security. In
the wake of ever-increasing human population, declining agricultural resources and the …

The cultivated tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum, is the second most consumed vegetable
worldwide and a well‐studied crop species in terms of genetics, genomics, and breeding. It …

Genomics research is generating new tools, such as functional molecular markers and
informatics, as well as new knowledge about statistics and inheritance phenomena that …

Comparative analysis of a number of studies in drought‐stressed maize (Zea mays L.)
reporting quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for abscisic acid concentration, root characteristics …

Cell-membrane stability (CMS) is considered to be one of the major selection indices of
drought tolerance in cereals. In order to determine which genomic region is responsible for …

Fruit size and shape are two major factors determining yield, quality and consumer
acceptability for many crops. Like most traits important to agriculture, both are quantitatively …

Advanced backcross QTL (AB-QTL) analysis was used to identify quantitative trait loci
(QTLs) for yield and yield components in a BC 2 F 2 population derived from a cross …

Even though marker-assisted selection now plays a prominent role in the field of plant
breeding, examples of successful, practical outcomes are rare. It is clear that DNA markers …