Marker-assisted selection: an approach for precision plant breeding in the twenty-first century

BCY Collard, DJ Mackill - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
DNA markers have enormous potential to improve the efficiency and precision of
conventional plant breeding via marker-assisted selection (MAS). The large number of …

SNP identification in crop plants

MW Ganal, T Altmann, MS Röder - Current opinion in plant biology, 2009 - Elsevier
In many plants, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers are increasingly becoming
the marker system of choice. However, for many crop plants there are surprisingly low …

Orphan legume crops enter the genomics era!

RK Varshney, TJ Close, NK Singh… - Current opinion in plant …, 2009 - Elsevier
Many of the world's most important food legumes are grown in arid and semi-arid regions of
Africa and Asia, where crop productivity is hampered by biotic and abiotic stresses. Until …

Characterization of Capsicum annuum Genetic Diversity and Population Structure Based on Parallel Polymorphism Discovery with a 30K Unigene Pepper GeneChip

TA Hill, H Ashrafi, S Reyes-Chin-Wo, JQ Yao, K Stoffel… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The widely cultivated pepper, Capsicum spp., important as a vegetable and spice crop world-
wide, is one of the most diverse crops. To enhance breeding programs, a detailed …

Cowpea speed breeding using regulated growth chamber conditions and seeds of oven-dried immature pods potentially accommodates eight generations per year

OU Edet, T Ishii - Plant Methods, 2022 - Springer
Background Cowpea is a dryland crop with potential to improve food security in sub-
Saharan Africa, where it is mostly produced and consumed. Contemporary plant …

[PDF][PDF] Legume genomics and breeding

RK Varshney, M Thudi, GD May, SA Jackson - Plant breeding reviews, 2010 - oar.icrisat.org
Legume Genomics and Breeding Page 1 Legume Genomics and Breeding Rajeev K. Varshney
and Mahendar Thudi International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) …

Potential to improve oilseed rape and canola breeding in the genomics era

RJ Snowdon, FL Iniguez Luy - Plant breeding, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
With 2 figures and 1 table Abstract High‐throughput genomics technologies today offer
unprecedented possibilities for gene discovery, complex trait analysis by genome‐wide …

Genomic and Breeding Resources

WC Relatives - by Ch. Kole. SpringerVerlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2011 - Springer
Wild crop relatives have been playing enormously important roles both in the depiction of
plant genomes and the genetic improvement of their cultivated counterparts. They have …

Genome-enabled insights into legume biology

ND Young, AK Bharti - Annual review of plant biology, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Legumes are the third-largest family of angiosperms, the second-most-important crop family,
and a key source of biological nitrogen in agriculture. Recently, the genome sequences of …

Development and polymorphism of Vigna unguiculata ssp. unguiculata microsatellite markers used for phylogenetic analysis in asparagus bean (Vigna unguiculata …

P Xu, X Wu, B Wang, Y Liu, D Qin, JD Ehlers… - Molecular …, 2010 - Springer
Asparagus bean (V. unguiculata ssp. sesquipedialis), a specific form of cowpea (V.
unguiculata L. Walp.), is cultivated as a vegetable crop throughout eastern and southern …