Breeding for disease resistant varieties remains very effective and economical in controlling
the bacterial leaf blight (BLB) of rice. Breeders have played a major role in developing …

Marker-assisted selection and gene pyramiding are very important breeding strategies for
conferring broad spectrum and durable resistance against diseases causing yield loss in …

In different crop plants, combining ability and heterosis are used as important diagnostic
tools for assessing the performance of parental genotypes and their hybrids. This research …

Population development and hybridization are important for improvement of both
quantitative and qualitative traits of different crops and are determined by proper selection of …

Analysis of the gene action exhibited by an agronomic trait in crop plants is useful in the
planning of an effective plant breeding program. This study sought to establish the …

Combining ability is the genotype's ability to pass the desired character to the offspring.
Hence, combining ability information is needed to determine the crossed pairs in the …

Wheat is an extremely essential food crop. It offers a huge wealth of material for genetic
analyses due to its broad ecological distribution. Due to extraordinary production cost and …

Selecting parents and evaluating progenies is a very important step in breeding programs
and involves approaches such as understanding the initial stages of growth and …

Early maturity, small seed size, and high seed yield are important characters of mungbean in
Indonesia. The objective of the study was to determine the useful parents in mungbean …

Mexico está enfrentando un déficit en la producción de maíz (Zea mays L.) a pesar de
producir 27 millones de toneladas anualmente. Los objetivos de esta investigación fueron …