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A timely, user-friendly, and flexible marker-assisted speed congenics method
Mice are the most widely used mammalian animal model worldwide. Their use presents many advantages, including our ability to manipulate their genome....
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Freshwater Microbiology: Recent Updates and Prospects
Along with bacteria, other microorganisms are also key components of microbiota structure of freshwater, and those include archaea, microbial...
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Use of Molecular Markers for Doubled Haploid Technology: From Academia to Plant Breeding Companies
Molecular markers are employed for doubled haploid (DH) technology by researchers and applied plant breeders in many crops. In the 1990s, isozymes...
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Biotechnological Interventions for Improvement of Temperate Nuts
Nuts are dry edible fruits or seeds that have a high fat, protein, fibre, and oil content. Commercial propagation and genetic improvement of...
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Genetic Improvement of Eggplant: Perspectives and Challenges
Eggplant is one of the most consumed vegetable fruit crops in the family Solanaceae, which includes other economically important crops such as...
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DNA fingerprinting: an overview on genetic diversity studies in the botanical taxa of Indian Bamboo
Bamboo is an economically important member of the grass family Poaceae with over 1500 documented uses. India has the 2nd largest reserve of bamboo in...
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Utility of the Mitochondrial Genome in Plant Taxonomic Studies
Size, structure, and sequence content lability of plant mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) across species has sharply limited its use in taxonomic studies....
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Recent approaches towards characterization, genetic, and genomic perspectives of genus Lilium
Lilium is known as one of the most primitive cut flowers produced commercially in diverse regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Most of the cultivars...
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Advances in Genetic Map** in Pines
This chapter summarizes the history and current status of genetic map** in pines. We review the genetic map** approaches, comparative map**,...
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A new molecular method for fast differentiation of cockles Cerastoderma edule and Cerastoderma glaucum
Cerastoderma edule and C. glaucum are two species of cockles that co-exist in European waters. They are morphologically similar but exhibit...
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Genome Analysis and Breeding
Almond is a nut tree species of worldwide economic importance. Almond breeding programs have been crucial to develop new cultivars that meet both...
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Genetic Diversity Assessment in Cereal Crops
Human intervention in nature has severely affected climatic changes resulting in global warming which drastically influences the agriculture sector...
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Recent Advancements in Molecular Marker Technologies and Their Applications in Crop Improvement
With the advancement of technologies in deciphering new molecular markers, the analysis of diversity between sets of germplasm at the molecular level...
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Genetics of Programmed Cell Death
To live or die is a fundamental question for all organisms. It is also a critical issue at the level of individual cells of an organism. Programmed...
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Ecological displacement in a Rocky Mountain hybrid zone informs management of North American martens (Martes)
ContextParapatric sister species are ideal for tests of ecological interactions. Pacific ( Martes caurina ) and American pine ( M. americana ) martens...
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QTLs and Gene Tagging in Crop Plants
QTL map** by biparental crossing for accurate and precise positioning of QTLs in terms of nucleotide sequence is being followed in several crops....
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Guidelines, Ethical Issues, and Other Challenges of Forensic DNA Analysis
In this chapter, different debates were discussed about performing DNA analysis in the past and in the advanced techniques used. There are different...
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Mushroom Biology and Advances
Mushrooms remained as a delicacy in human diet since time immemorial and probably predate any historical account. The therapeutic value of mushrooms...
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Peach
This chapter gives an overview of peach taxonomy, origin, domestication, distribution, and spread of the different wild genetic resources of peach...
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Genetic and Genomic Resources of Range Grasses: Status and Future Prospects
This paper describes the current scenario of the genetic and genomic resources of the range grasses. The majority of world’s rangeland, which make up...