Polyploidy is a prominent process in plants and has been significant in the evolutionary
history of vertebrates and other eukaryotes. In plants, interdisciplinary approaches …

In recent years, considerable emphasis has been placed on the development of molecular
markers to be used for a variety of objectives. This review attempts to give an account of …

Plants may also be resistant to arthropods via the tolerance category of resistance, as
defined in Chapter 1, by possessing the ability to withstand or recover from damage caused …

Genetic engineering and biotechnology hold great potential for plant breeding as it promises
to expedite the time taken to produce crop varieties with desirable characters. With the use …

This 2013 edition of the Catalogue of Gene Symbols for Wheat represents 45 years of
curation of wheat genetic information which began with my appointment as Curator at the …

A molecular map has been constructed for the rice genome comprised of 726 markers
(mainly restriction fragment length polymorphisms; RFLPs). The mapping population was …

Recent epidemics of fusarium head blight (FHB), caused by Fusarium graminearum
Schwabe (telomorph: Gibberella zeae), in the USA and Canada have caused severe yield …

Une carte génétique comprenant 92 loci RFLP et deux loci de protéines de réserve a été
créée à l'aide de 94 lignées d'haploïdes doublés provenant du croisement entre le cultivar …

An evaluation was made of the use of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) as a
genetic marker system in wheat. Reproducible amplification products were obtained from …

The progress made in DNA marker technology has been tremendous and exciting. DNA
markers have provided valuable tools in various analyses ranging from phylogenetic …