With the development of molecular marker technology in the 1980s, the fate of plant
breeding has changed. Different types of molecular markers have been developed and …

Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data can be obtained using one of the numerous
uniplex or multiplex SNP genotyping platforms that combine a variety of chemistries …

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 use of molecular markers has revolutionized the pace and precision of plant genetic
analysis which in turn facilitated the implementation of molecular breeding of crops. The last …

Non-model plants ie, the species which have one or all of the characters such as long life
cycle, difficulty to grow in the laboratory or poor fecundity, have been schemed out of …

Hundreds of experiments involving genotyping and phenotyping of the plants are planned
daily by plant researchers worldwide for wheat improvement. There are a plethora of …

Recently, kale has become popular due to nutritive components beneficial for human health.
It is an important source of phytochemicals such as glucosinolates that trigger associated …

After a basic description of the different sets of genetic tools and genomic approaches most
relevant for modern crop breeding (eg, QTL mapping, GWAS and genomic selection; …

Abstract Development and utilization of genetic markers play a pivotal role in marker-
assisted breeding of wheat cultivars with pyramids of disease resistance genes. The …

Key message A yellow green peel mutant (ygp) in cucumber was caused by a mutation in
Csa2G352940 encoding MYB36 transcription factor. Abstract Peel color is one of the …