Crop improvements can help us to meet the challenge of feeding a population of 10 billion,
but can we breed better varieties fast enough? Technologies such as genotyping, marker …

Understanding genetic diversity, association studies, evolution analysis, quantitative trait
loci, marker-assisted selection and genome-wide association in tropical crops are important …

The use of molecular markers has revolutionized the pace and precision of plant genetic
analysis which in turn facilitated the implementation of molecular breeding of crops. The last …

Genomewide association mapping in model organisms such as inbred mouse strains is a
promising approach for the identification of risk factors related to human diseases. However …

Molecular markers are widely used in plant genetic research and breeding. Single
Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are currently the marker of choice due to their large …

Improvement in traits of agronomic importance is the top breeding priority of crop
improvement programs. Majority of these agronomic traits show complex quantitative …

Inorganic phosphate (Pi)-signaling pathways in plants are still largely unknown. The
Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) pho2 mutant overaccumulates Pi in leaves in Pi-replete …

Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …

Identifying natural allelic variation that underlies quantitative trait variation remains a
fundamental problem in genetics. Most studies have employed either simple synthetic …

Plastid-derived signals are known to coordinate expression of nuclear genes encoding
plastid-localized proteins in a process termed retrograde signaling. To date, the identity of …