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

Recognizing the enormous potential of DNA markers in plant breeding, many agricultural
research centers and plant breeding institutes have adopted the capacity for marker …

The need to accelerate breeding for increased yield potential and better adaptation to
drought and other abiotic stresses is an issue of increasing urgency. As the population …

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 …

Marker‐assisted breeding provides an opportunity for wheat breeders to introgress/pyramid
genes of interest into breeding lines and to identify genes and/or quantitative trait loci in …

Stem rust resistance in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) conferred by the Sr2 gene has remained
effective against Puccinia graminis Pers.: Pers. f. sp. tritici Eriks. & E. Henn. worldwide for …

Genetic associations of morphological, biochemical, and DNA markers with economically
important traits can be used for indirect selection of the traits. Chromosomal linkage between …

We combined the recently developed genotyping by sequencing (GBS) method with joint
mapping (also known as nested association mapping) to dissect and understand the genetic …

CMS Cytoplasmic male sterility COS Conserved orthologous set DArT Diversity array
technology eQTL Expression QTL ESTs Expressed sequence tags FM Functional markers …

Leaf (brown) and stripe (yellow) rusts, caused by Puccinia triticina and Puccinia striiformis,
respectively, are fungal diseases of wheat (Triticum aestivum) that cause significant yield …