Key message Reproductive stage salinity tolerance is most critical for rice as it determines
the yield under stress. Few studies have been undertaken for this trait as phenotyping was …

Rice is a global food grain crop for more than one-third of the human population and a
source for food and nutritional security. Rice production is subjected to various stresses; …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the primary staple food for half of the world population. It is generally
classified based on the grain color into black, red, purple, brown, green, and white. These …

Cereals are grown in almost every region of the world and are exposed to a variety of
environmental stresses that severely affect their growth and grain yield. Of various abiotic …

A total of 2414 new di-, tri-and tetra-nucleotide non-redundant SSR primer pairs,
representing 2240 unique marker loci, have been developed and experimentally validated …

A total of 57.8 Mb of publicly available rice (Oryza sativa L.) DNA sequence was searched to
determine the frequency and distribution of different simple sequence repeats (SSRs) in the …

Methodologies for mapping of genes underlying quantitative traits have advanced
considerably but have not been accompanied by a parallel development of new population …

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 …

In order to enhance the resolution of an existing genetic map of rice, and to obtain a
comprehensive picture of marker utility and genomic distribution of microsatellites in this …

Microsatellites are simple, tandemly repeated di-to tetra-nucleotide sequence motifs flanked
by unique sequences. They are valuable as genetic markers because they are co-dominant …