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Sustainable Utilization of Wild Germplasm Resources
Breeders have received a number of “game-changing” features or genes from crop wild relatives (CWRs), which have increased crop resilience and...
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Enrichment of Breeding Germplasm
Related species provide adaptation to a wide range of soils and climates, making them historically important as regional rootstocks. Utilization as...
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Cultivar Improvement with Exotic Germplasm: An Example from Potato
Potato breeders have abundant germplasm resources at their disposal in wild relatives and landrace varieties. Exotic germplasm has been used mainly...
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Malus Species: Germplasm Conservation and Utilization
Malus species is important not only from the point of economics but also from a cultural and nutritional point of view. Most of the Malus species are...
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Identification of exotic temperate maize inbreds for use in tropical breeding programs
Restricted genetic variability in elite tropical maize germplasm has raised concerns about the potential to develop higher yielding and...
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Quarantine of Germplasm: Safeguarding Genetic Resources Through In Vitro Tissue Culture
The international transfer of beneficial germplasm has played a crucial role in the advancement of agricultural diversification, with around 30% of...
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Genetic diversity and population structure analysis of papaya (Carica papaya L.) germplasm using simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers
Papaya ( Carica papaya L.) is a versatile tropical fruit crop with economic and nutritional benefits. Assessing genetic diversity of the germplasm is...
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Nutritive Vegetable Crop Germplasm for Future Food Security
Vegetables are the key component of balanced human diet and also the main drivers in achieving global nutritional security by providing nutrient,...
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Indian Orchid Germplasm
Orchidaceae is the second largest family of flowering plants and valued for their ornamental and therapeutic importance. A number of species of this...
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Indian Orchid Germplasm
Orchidaceae is the second largest family of flowering plants and valued for their ornamental and therapeutic importance. A number of species of this...
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Malus Species: Germplasm Conservation and Utilization
Malus species is important not only from the point of economics but also from a cultural and nutritional point of view. Most of the Malus species are...
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Genetic diversity dissection and population structure analysis for augmentation of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) germplasm using morpho-molecular markers
For wheat improvement, knowledge of diversity patterns and evolutionary relationships among the germplasm is essential for the sustainable...
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Etiology, management, and host response of cold-tolerant maize germplasm for common rust disease of maize under temperate conditions
Common rust is one of the most destructive diseases of maize, causing significant losses to maize production under temperate agro-climatic...
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Major locus for spontaneous haploid genome doubling detected by a case–control GWAS in exotic maize germplasm
Key messageA major locus for spontaneous haploid genome doubling was detected by a case–control GWAS in an exotic maize germplasm. The combination of...
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Exotic alleles contribute to heat tolerance in wheat under field conditions
Global warming poses a major threat to food security and necessitates the development of crop varieties that are resilient to future climatic...
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Field response and molecular screening of European wheat germplasm against powdery mildew at the Himalayan region of Pakistan
Wheat powdery mildew possesses a significant threat to wheat crops not only on a global scale but also in the northern region of Pakistan....
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Genomic selection to introgress exotic maize germplasm into elite maize in China to improve kernel dehydration rate
Genomic selection (GS) is an efficient way for trait improvement in crops. GS for kernel dehydration rate (KDR) has not been reported until now. The...
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Documentation of multi-pathotype durable resistance in exotic wheat genotypes to deadly stripe and leaf rust diseases
Leaf and yellow rusts are considered as one of the most serious biotic constraints of wheat inflicting massive economic losses globally. Host...
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A note on promising early colouring apple bud sports identified from commercial exotic apple germplasm
Somatic mutations (bud sports) add to the genetic variability in many crop species through outcrossing, sexual recombination, polyploidy etc. and...
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Major chromosome 5H haplotype switch structures the European two-rowed spring barley germplasm of the past 190 years
Key messageSelection over 70 years has led to almost complete fixation of a haplotype spanning ~ 250 Mbp of chomosome 5H in European two-rowed spring...
