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 cultivated tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum, is the second most consumed vegetable
worldwide and a well‐studied crop species in terms of genetics, genomics, and breeding. It …

Pepper (Capsicum spp.) is one of the major vegetable crops grown worldwide largely
appreciated for its economic importance and nutritional value. This crop belongs to the large …

Capsicum (chili peppers) is a New World genus with five crop species of great economic
importance for food and spices. An up-to-date summary of the karyotypic knowledge is …

Phytophthora capsici is the most devastating pathogen for chile pepper production
worldwide and current management strategies are not effective. The population structure of …

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 …

Bacterial wilt, caused by strains belonging to the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex,
inflicts severe economic losses in many crops worldwide. Host resistance remains the most …

The breakdown of plant resistance by pathogen populations is a limit to the genetic control
of crop disease. Polygenic resistance is postulated as a durable alternative to defeated …

Doubled haploids in genetics and plant breeding Page 65 3 Doubled Haploids in Genetics
and Plant Breeding* Brian P. Forster and William TB Thomas Scottish Crop Research Institute …

Vegetables are an integral part of the human diet worldwide. Traditional breeding
approaches have been used extensively to develop new cultivars of vegetables with …