Plants have evolved sophisticated systems to cope with herbivore challenges. When plants
perceive herbivore-derived physical and chemical cues, such as elicitors in insects' oral …

Main conclusion The present review illustrates a comprehensive overview of the start codon
targeted (SCoT) polymorphism marker and their utilization in various applications related to …

The advantages of using molecular markers in modern genebanks are well documented.
They are commonly used to understand the distribution of genetic diversity in populations …

Anthelmintic resistance is a major problem for the control livestock parasites and a potential
threat to the sustainability of community-wide treatment programmes being used to control …

Abstract Background Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] is an important legume crop of
rainfed agriculture. Despite of concerted research efforts directed to pigeonpea …

Crop improvement is a continuous effort, since some 10,000 years ago when primitive man
made the transition from hunting and foraging to domestication and crop cultivation. Since …

Sesame production and productivity are severely constrained by a lack of high-yielding and
locally adapted varieties, susceptibility to capsule shattering and low seed retention, biotic …

Advances in next‐generation sequencing technologies have aided discovery of millions of
genome‐wide DNA polymorphisms, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and insertions …

Many of the crop species considered to be minor on a global scale, yet are important locally
for food security in the developing world, have remained less-studied crops. Recent years …

In the past two decades, the wheat community has made remarkable progress in developing
molecular resources for breeding. A wide variety of molecular tools has been established to …