Chickpea is an important leguminous crop with potential to provide dietary proteins to both
humans and animals. It also ameliorates soil nitrogen through biological nitrogen fixation …

In recent years, molecular markers have been utilized for a variety of applications including
examination of genetic relationships between individuals, mapping of useful genes …

DNA markers have enormous potential to improve the efficiency and precision of
conventional plant breeding via marker-assisted selection (MAS). The large number of …

Expressed sequence tag (EST) projects have generated a vast amount of publicly available
sequence data from plant species; these data can be mined for simple sequence repeats …

Inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR)-PCR is a technique, which involvesthe use of
microsatellite sequences as primers in a polymerase chainreaction to generate multilocus …

A microsatellite consensus map was constructed by joining four independent genetic maps
of bread wheat. Three of the maps were F 1-derived, doubled-haploid line populations and …

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 …

This paper is an overview of the diverse, predominantly molecular techniques, used in
assessing plant genetic diversity. In recent years, there has been a significant increase in …

Improvement in traits of agronomic importance is the top breeding priority of crop
improvement programs. Majority of these agronomic traits show complex quantitative …

Given the explosive development of new molecular marker techniques over the last decade,
newcomers and experts alike in the field of DNA fingerprinting will find an easy-to-follow …