Current global agricultural production must feed over 7 billion people. However, productivity
varies greatly across the globe and is under threat from both increased competitions for land …

Wheat and barley are two of the founder crops of the agricultural revolution that took place
10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent and both crops remain among the world's most …

The development of ubiquitous polymorphic genetic markers that span the genome have
made it possible for quantitative and molecular geneticists to investigate what MD Edwards …

The complete or partial loss of shattering ability occurred independently during the
domestication of several crops. Therefore, the study of this trait can provide an …

This chapter describes the most commonly used procedures for molecular marker analysis.
Prior to molecular markers, linkage of useful traits was measured frequently to …

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генетических маркеров в популяционной генетике и селекции сельскохозяйственных …

The genetic basis of domestication and improvement remains largely unknown in sorghum
as a typical multiple-origins species. In this study, the F 2 and F 3 populations derived from a …

Low temperature at the booting stage is a major abiotic stress-limiting rice production. In this
study, Cold stress tolerance index of panicle traits of a recombinant inbred line was used to …

Overwintering ability is an important selection criterion for Miscanthus breeding in temperate
regions. Insufficient overwintering ability of the currently leading Miscanthus biomass …

Most of the calories which feed humankind are derived from crops in the plant family
Poaceae, the grasses. In natural populations, asynchrony of seed/grain maturity can be a …