Sugarcane improvement: how far can we go?

M Dal-Bianco, MS Carneiro, CT Hotta… - Current opinion in …, 2012 - Elsevier
In recent years, efforts to improve sugarcane have focused on the development of
biotechnology for this crop. It has become clear that sugarcane lacks tools for the …

Expanding frontiers in plant transcriptomics in aid of functional genomics and molecular breeding

P Agarwal, SK Parida, A Mahto, S Das… - Biotechnology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The transcript pool of a plant part, under any given condition, is a collection of mRNAs that
will pave the way for a biochemical reaction of the plant to stimuli. Over the past decades …

Functionally relevant microsatellite markers from chickpea transcription factor genes for efficient genotyping applications and trait association mapping

A Kujur, D Bajaj, MS Saxena, S Tripathi… - DNA …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We developed 1108 transcription factor gene-derived microsatellite (TFGMS) and 161
transcription factor functional domain-associated microsatellite (TFFDMS) markers from 707 …

Challenges, opportunities and recent advances in sugarcane breeding

KC Scortecci, S Creste, T Calsa Jr, MA Xavier… - Plant …, 2012 - books.google.com
Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) has a long history in line with European colonization and
Imperialism. Its cultivation in the New World since the early Modern Period (XVI century) …

[HTML][HTML] Natural allelic diversity, genetic structure and linkage disequilibrium pattern in wild chickpea

MS Saxena, D Bajaj, A Kujur, S Das, S Badoni… - PLoS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Characterization of natural allelic diversity and understanding the genetic structure and
linkage disequilibrium (LD) pattern in wild germplasm accessions by large-scale genotyping …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide identification and characterization of functionally relevant microsatellite markers from transcription factor genes of Tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O …

R Parmar, R Seth, RK Sharma - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Tea, being one of the most popular beverages requires large set of molecular markers for
genetic improvement of quality, yield and stress tolerance. Identification of functionally …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide novel genic microsatellite marker resource development and validation for genetic diversity and population structure analysis of banana

MK Biswas, M Bagchi, D Biswas, JA Harikrishna, Y Liu… - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Trait tagging through molecular markers is an important molecular breeding tool for crop
improvement. SSR markers encoded by functionally relevant parts of a genome are well …

[HTML][HTML] Unraveling the genetic structure of Brazilian commercial sugarcane cultivars through microsatellite markers

JRV Manechini, JB da Costa, BT Pereira… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The Brazilian sugarcane industry plays an important role in the worldwide supply of sugar
and ethanol. Investigation into the genetic structure of current commercial cultivars and …

[HTML][HTML] SSR Marker-Assisted Management of Parental Germplasm in Sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) Breeding Programs

J Wu, Q Wang, J Xie, YB Pan, F Zhou, Y Guo, H Chang… - Agronomy, 2019 - mdpi.com
Sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) is an important sugar and bioenergy crop with a high
aneuploidy, complex genomes and extreme heterozygosity. A good understanding of …

Genome-wide conserved non-coding microsatellite (CNMS) marker-based integrative genetical genomics for quantitative dissection of seed weight in chickpea

D Bajaj, MS Saxena, A Kujur, S Das… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenetic footprinting identified 666 genome-wide paralogous and orthologous CNMS
(conserved non-coding microsatellite) markers from 5′-untranslated and regulatory regions …