Genetic improvement in coconut relies on exploiting the vast existing diversity among
coconut accessions. Robust molecular markers are a pre-requisite for efficient …

Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.), an important source of vegetable oil, nutraceuticals, functional
foods, and housing materials, provides raw materials for a repertoire of industries engaged …

Achieving improved plant breeding is one of the most significant challenges facing efforts to
ensure human nutrition and energy security over the next 30 years. The principal focus of …

Coconut palm is an important economic plant species in fragile coastal and island
ecosystems of the tropics. The palm is a multipurpose perennial crop whose diversity at …

Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) is a continuous fruiting perennial tropical fruit and oil crop that is
mainly cultivated in the humid and sub-humid coastal tropics. It is a perennial multipurpose …

Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) has emerged as a cost-effective approach for genome-
wide discovery of single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers and high-throughput …

Exploring the elite alleles based on the association mapping related to fatty acid content in
coconut flesh will expedite the breeding of coconut varieties for human welfare. In the …

Sugar and fatty acid content are among the important factors that contribute to the intensity of
flavor in aromatic coconut. Gaining a comprehensive understanding of the sugar and fatty …

Considerable progress has been made in evolving high-yielding coconut cultivars and
hybrids with desirable traits, despite critical constraints in breeding due to heterozygous …

Abstract Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.), belonging to the family Arecaceae, has earned the
epithet 'Kalpavriksha'(“Tree of Life”) because of its multitude of uses. Changing and future …