Common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) originated in the New World and are the grain
legume of greatest production for direct human consumption. Common bean production is …

Macromutations (alleles with major phenotypic effects) have greatly simpli fied the lives of
geneticists. Wingless flies, hairless mice, and dwarf plants can all be conditioned by …

Globally, 800 million people are malnourished. Heavily subsidised farmers in rich countries
produce sufficient surplus food to feed the hungry, but not at a price the poor can afford …

Knowledge about the origins and evolution of crop species represents an important
prerequisite for efficient conservation and use of existing plant materials. This study was …

We have used a" two-way pseudo-testcross" mapping strategy in combination with the
random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) assay to construct two moderate density …

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), one of the most important grain legume crops for
direct human consumption, faces many challenges as a crop. Domesticated from wild …

Mycogen Plant Sciences, Madison Laboratories, 5649 East Buckeye Road, Madison, WI
53716 in a bewildering array of new terms. For scientists who have a peripheral interest in …

The progress made in DNA marker technology has been tremendous and exciting. DNA
markers have provided valuable tools in various analyses ranging from phylogenetic …

Chromosomal regions associated with marker segregation distortion in rice were compared
based on six molecular linkage maps. Mapping populations were derived from one …

Legumes are simultaneously one of the largest families of crop plants and a cornerstone in
the biological nitrogen cycle. We combined molecular and phylogenetic analyses to …