Recognizing the enormous potential of DNA markers in plant breeding, many agricultural
research centers and plant breeding institutes have adopted the capacity for marker …

The expected move towards more sustainable crop-livestock systems implies wider
cultivation of perennial forage legumes. Alfalfa (Medicago sativa subsp. sativa) is the main …

In the mid‐1980s, the development of abundant molecular markers, appropriate statistical
procedures, and user‐friendly computer software that implemented these statistical …

Fully drought-resistant crop plants would be beneficial, but selection breeding has not
produced them. Genetic modification of species by introduction of very many genes is …

Determinacy is an agronomically important trait associated with the domestication in
soybean (Glycine max). Most soybean cultivars are classifiable into indeterminate and …

Most adaptive traits are controlled by large number of genes that may all together be the
targets of selection. Adaptation may thus involve multiple but not necessarily substantial …

Recent technical advancements and refinement of analytical methods have enabled the loci
(quantitative trait loci, QTLs) responsible for the genetic control of quantitative traits to be …

The advent of saturated molecular maps promised rapid progress towards the improvement
of crops for genetically complex traits like drought resistance via analysis of quantitative trait …

We show here that the pvr2 locus in pepper, conferring recessive resistance against strains
of potato virus Y (PVY), corresponds to a eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) gene. RFLP …

In recent years, molecular marker technology in higher plants has witnessed a shift from the
so-called random DNA markers (RDMs), developed in the past arbitrarily from genomic DNA …