Increased availability of high throughput genotyping technology together with advances in
DNA sequencing and in the development of statistical methodology appropriate for genome …

Drought stress is the main limiting factor for global soybean growth and production. Genetic
improvement for water and nutrient uptake efficiency is critical to advance tolerance and …

Association mapping (AM), also known as linkage disequilibrium (LD) mapping, is a viable
approach to overcome limitations of pedigree-based quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping. In …

Chickpea is an inexpensive source of protein, minerals, and vitamins to the poor people
living in arid and semi-arid regions of Southern Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. New chickpea …

Background Molecular markers associated with relevant agronomic traits could significantly
reduce the time and cost involved in developing new sugarcane varieties. Previous …

For the most part, molecular markers and detection of quantitative trait loci have been
developed for forest tree species in view to performing marker-assisted selection (MAS) …

Background Breeding for cold tolerance in maize promises to allow increasing growth area
and production in temperate zones. The objective of this research was to conduct genome …

Highlights•Genome Wide Association Studies (GWASs) have been conducted in 22 plant
species.•GWASs have uncovered novel mechanisms and genes underlying variation of …

Background Genetic map based quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis is an important
method for studying important horticultural traits in apple. To facilitate molecular breeding …

Genomic selection (GS) has been used to optimize genetic gains when phenotypic selection
is considered costly and difficult to measure. The objective of this work was to evaluate the …