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Breeding of a new variety of peanut with high-oleic-acid content and high-yield by marker-assisted backcrossing
Peanut ( Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important crop used for oil production, and oleic acid is a major factor in determining oil quality. Alterations...
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Marker-Assisted Breeding for Soybean Mosaic Virus Resistance in Soybean (Glycine max)
The soybean (Glycine max) is a major legume crop for meeting the nutritional needs of both humans and animals. However, several diseases disturb...
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Introduction to Marker-Assisted Selection in Wheat Breeding
Marker-assisted selection (MAS) is a selection method for improving agriculturally essential traits in wheat. MAS allows efficient screening of...
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Flooding tolerance in Rice: adaptive mechanism and marker-assisted selection breeding approaches
Natural and man-made ecosystems worldwide are subjected to flooding, which is a form of environmental stress. Genetic variability in the plant...
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LCVD resistance breeding in heat tolerant bell pepper: Combined phenotypic and marker-assisted backcrossing for introgression of LCVD resistance from hot pepper
Hot pepper ( Capsicum annuum var. annuum ) and bell pepper ( C. annuum var. grossum ) are the important crops of the Solanaceae family. In the present...
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Introgression of opaque2 allele into sweetcorn composite through marker-assisted selection
Corn ( Zea mays L.) is the third most important staple cereal crop after wheat and rice, which is used for human consumption, biofuels, livestock feed...
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Perspectives on the Marker-Assisted Breeding of the Cd-PSCs
Crop breeding aims to obtain the novel crop cultivars with specific quality and quantity characteristics to meet the economic and safety production...
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Forward Breeding for Efficient Selection
Global food security is the numero uno priority in the current global situation, threatened by a number of challenges catalyzed by accelerated...
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Efficient marker-assisted breeding for clubroot resistance in elite Pol-CMS rapeseed varieties by updating the PbBa8.1 locus
Clubroot disease poses a severe threat to rapeseed ( Brassica napus ) production worldwide and has recently been spreading across China at an...
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Improvement of bacterial blight resistance of the popular variety, Nellore Mahsuri (NLR34449) through marker-assisted breeding
To combat the dreaded diseases in rice like bacterial blight (BB) and blast, host plant resistance has been advocated as the most suitable and...
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Sequence-Based Breeding for Plant Improvement
This book chapter discusses the significant improvement in breeding programs’ utilizing modern genomic tools and technologies. Next-generation...
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Recent Technologies in Wheat Breeding
The adventure of wheat started with the hybridization of T. monoccocum × Ae. speltoides in nature and the formation of tetraploid T. dicoccoides from...
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Breeding Finger Millet for Biotic Stress Resistance
Finger millet (Eleusine coracana L.), commonly cultivated in countries with semiarid and tropical climate like India, can be a potential contributor...
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Marker-Assisted Selection for Value Addition in Crop Plants
Modern-day varieties of different agricultural crops are the result of long-time selection and domestication of wild plants by human race. To feed...
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Marker-Assisted Simultaneous and Stepwise Pyramiding of Broad-Spectrum Bacterial Leaf Blight Resistance Genes, Xa33 and Xa38, into Salt-Tolerant Rice Variety “CO43”
Bacterial leaf blight (BLB) disease is one of the most important diseases of rice in India and worldwide. The management of this disease becomes...
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Development and application of a KASP marker for marker-assisted selection against the male-sterile gene MALE STERILITY 4 (MS4) in Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica D. Don)
A causal gene for MALE STERILITY 4 ( MS4 ), the CjTKPR1 gene, was recently identified in Cryptomeria japonica . To apply marker-assisted selection (MAS)...
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Genomic identification and phenotypic evaluation of yield traits and bacterial wilt resistance in high oleic peanut breeding lines developed by marker assisted backcrossing
The peanut rich in oleic acid in seed oil, also known as high oleic peanut, renders its products superior in human healthy diet, long shelf life and...
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Development of Basmati lines by the introgression of three bacterial blight resistant genes through marker-assisted breeding
Basmati is a premium quality rice, famous for its aroma, fine grain, and excellent cooking qualities. However, it is highly susceptible to bacterial...
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Breeding an early maturing, blast resistance water-saving and drought-resistance rice (WDR) cultivar using marker-assisted selection coupled with rapid generation advance
The japonica water-saving and drought-resistance rice ( Oryza sativa L.) (WDR) cultivar Huhan 9 harbors genes for resistance to rice blast ( Magnaporthe...
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Enhancement of nutritional quality in maize kernel through marker-assisted breeding for vte4, crtRB1, and opaque2 genes
Traditional maize is poor in vitamin-E [α-tocopherol (α-T): 6–8 ppm], vitamin-A [provitamin-A (proA): 1–2ppm], lysine (0.150–0.2–50%), and tryptophan...
