Background DNA markers improved the productivity and accuracy of classical plant
breeding by means of marker-assisted selection (MAS). The enormous number of …

Microsatellites, or simple sequence repeats (SSRs), have long played a major role in
genetic studies due to their typically high polymorphism. They have diverse applications …

Motivation Microsatellites are a widely-used marker system in plant genetics and forensics.
The development of reliable microsatellite markers from resequencing data is challenging …

Aromatic rice cultivars constitute a small but special group of rice and are considered the
best in terms of quality and aroma. Aroma is one of the most significant quality traits of rice …

Sustainable agricultural production is endangered by several ecological factors, such as
drought, extreme temperatures, excessive salts, parasitic ailments, and insect pest …

Recent advancements in genomic analysis technologies have opened up new avenues to
promote the efficiency of plant breeding. Novel genomics-based approaches for plant …

Marker-assisted selection and gene pyramiding are very important breeding strategies for
conferring broad spectrum and durable resistance against diseases causing yield loss in …

Despite strong interest over many years, the usage of quantitative trait loci in plant breeding
has often failed to live up to expectations. A key weak point in the utilisation of QTLs is the …

Few public sector rice breeders have the capacity to use NGS-derived markers in their
breeding programmes despite rapidly expanding repositories of rice genome sequence …

Domestic rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important cereal crops, feeding a large
number of worldwide populations. Along with various high-throughput genome sequencing …