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

This chapter reviews four main aspects of genetic diversity in soybean: formation, collection,
evaluation, and utilization. Because the benefit of genetic diversity can be realized only by …

In the mid‐1980s, the development of abundant molecular markers, appropriate statistical
procedures, and user‐friendly computer software that implemented these statistical …

Recent advances in plant genomics and molecular biology have revolutionized our
understanding of plant genetics, providing new opportunities for more efficient and …

The final yield of a crop is the product of growth during the growing season and a number of
developmental processes occurring throughout the life cycle of a crop, with most genes …

A marker-assisted back-crossing (MABC) breeding programme was conducted to improve
the root morphological traits, and thereby drought tolerance, of the Indian upland rice variety …

Despite the intensive management practices available to modern agriculture, drought and
salinity are still major constraints on crop production and food security. Yield losses to …

Breeding for improved productivity has been tremendously successful in the last half‐
century, but needs to be even more efficient in the future. Hope based on contributions from …

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

US soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] germplasm has a narrow genetic base. The objective of
this study was to identify G. soja Sieb. and Zucc. alleles for yield and yield component …