In recent years, molecular markers have been utilized for a variety of applications including
examination of genetic relationships between individuals, mapping of useful genes …

Crop improvement is a continuous effort, since some 10,000 years ago when primitive man
made the transition from hunting and foraging to domestication and crop cultivation. Since …

Background Sesame is an important oil crop, but limited transcriptomic and genomic data
are currently available. This information is essential to clarify the fatty acid and lignan …

Abstract Background Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millspaugh], one of the most important
food legumes of semi-arid tropical and subtropical regions, has limited genomic resources …

Abstract Background Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), an important grain legume crop of the
world is seriously challenged by terminal drought and salinity stresses. However, very …

Summarizing landmark research, Volume 2 of this essential series furnishes information on
the availability of germplasm resources that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding …

Garlic (Allium sativum), an asexually propagated vegetable and medicinal crop, has
abundant genetic variation. Genetic diversity evaluation based on molecular markers has …

Molecular genetic markers represent one of the most powerful tools for the analysis of
genomes and enable the association of heritable traits with underlying genomic variation …

Abstract Background The castor bean (Ricinus communis L.), a monotypic species in the
spurge family (Euphorbiaceae, 2n= 20), is an important non-edible oilseed crop widely …

Despite chickpea being the third important grain legume, there is a limited availability of
genomic resources, especially of the expressed sequence tag (EST)-based markers. In this …