Developing countries are already benefiting and should continue to benefit significantly from
advances in plant biotechnology. Insect-protected cotton containing a natural insecticide …

Molecular markers and genetic maps are available for most important food crops. Marker‐
trait associations have been established for a diverse array of traits in these crops, and …

The volume of publications on the development and to a lesser extent the application of
molecular markers in plant breeding has increased dramatically during the last decade …

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

Rice is the principal food crop for people in South and South-East Asia and is life for millions
of rural households worldwide. Bacterial blight (BB) is a very common, widespread, and …

Feeding ever-increasing population is the main challenge faced by the agricultural scientists
and to meet this plant breeders have to put continuous efforts to develop new crop varieties …

To improve plant varieties, since the late 19th century plant breeders relied on phenotypic
selection, achieving breeding progress through the assessment of external and internal …

Rice blast, caused by fungus M agnaporthe grisea, is a serious disease causing
considerable economic damage worldwide. Best way to overcome disease is to breed for …

Bioinformatics plays a crucial role in crop improvement and breeding by facilitating the
analysis and interpretation of vast genetic data. It accelerates these processes by aiding in …

Key message This work discusses several selected topics of plant genetics and breeding in
relation to the 150th anniversary of the seminal work of Gregor Johann Mendel. Abstract In …