Lettuce (Lactuca spp.) is an annual and self-pollinating crop that belongs to the Asteraceae
(Compositae) family. It is one of the most globally essential commercial vegetable crops …

ABSTRACT The North American crop wild relatives (CWR) of lettuce (Lactuca L.) represent
an underexplored pool of genetic diversity of potential value to breeding programs. The 10 …

Current knowledge of wild Lactuca L. species, their taxonomy, biogeography, gene-pools,
germplasm collection quality and quantity, and accession availability is reviewed in this …

Bailinggu (Pleurotus tuoliensis) is a major, commercially cultivated mushroom and widely
used for nutritional, medicinal, and industrial applications. Yet, the mushroom's genetic …

Genetic diversity was examined in a collection of 263 Indian bread wheat (Triticum aestivum
L.) cultivars using 90 SSR markers. These cultivars were classified into Group I (pre-green …

Coffee breeding and improvement efforts can be greatly facilitated by availability of a large
repository of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) based microsatellite markers, which provides …

Glyphosate-resistant populations of Conyza canadensis have been spreading at a rapid rate
in Ontario, Canada, since first being documented in 2010. Determining the genetic …

Lettuce is one of the economically important leaf vegetables and is cultivated mainly in
temperate climate areas. Cultivar identification based on the distinctness, uniformity, and …

Twenty-two EST-SSR loci for further genetic analysis of Liriope and Ophiopogon species
were developed by analyzing of 545 ESTs in Ophiopogon japonicus cDNA library and used …

This chapter presents a brief history of the uses of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) and its wild
North American relatives and reviews the agricultural importance of lettuce and challenges …