Drought and salinity are the major abiotic stresses that dramatically threaten the food supply
in the world. Tribe Triticeae, including wheat and barley, possesses tremendous potential for …

The genus Triticum includes bread (Triticum aestivum) and durum wheat (Triticum durum)
and constitutes a major source for human food consumption. Drought is currently the leading …

Given the explosive development of new molecular marker techniques over the last decade,
newcomers and experts alike in the field of DNA fingerprinting will find an easy-to-follow …

A compilation of studies using RAPD markers for evaluating population differentiation
resulted in 78 estimates of AMOVA-derived ΦST and 31 estimates of Nei's GST, as well as in …

Multivariate analyses such as principal component analysis were among the first statistical
methods employed to extract information from genetic markers. From their early applications …

Genetic variation within and between five populations of Oryza granulata from two regions of
China was investigated using RAPD (random amplified polymorphic DNA) and ISSR (inter …

Two DNA-based fingerprinting techniques, simple sequence repeats (SSR) and random
amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analyses, were applied in sorghum germplasm analysis …

Almost three decades ago Alec Jeffreys published his seminal Nature papers on the use of
minisatellite probes for DNA fingerprinting of humans (Jeffreys and colleagues Nature 1985 …

This book is about the contribution to evolutionary theory and agricultural technology of one
of humankind's most dramatic imitations of the evolu tionary process, namely crop …

Abstract Greengram [Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek], also known as mung bean, widely
cultivated in a large number of countries, is an important pulse crop of Asia and is …