Apomixis: A Boon to Plant Breeding

Nanotechnology: A Boon to Dentistry

Dentistry is frequently facing revolutions in order to provide a most reliable and comfortable therapeutic option for the patients. Recently, nanotechnology has emerged as a new science exploi­ ting specific phenomena and direct manipulation of materials on nanoscale. Nanorobotics is the technology of creating machines or robots at or close to the microscopic scale of a nanometer (10–9 m). Nano...

From plant genomics to breeding practice.

New alleles are constantly accumulated during intentional crop selection. The molecular understanding of these alleles has stimulated new genomic approaches to mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) and haplotype multiplicity of the genes concerned. A limited number of quantitative trait nucleotides responsible for QTL variation have been described, but an acceleration in their rate of discovery...

Effects of Plant Stress on Facultative Apomixis in Boechera (Brassicaceae)

Effects of Plant Stress on Facultative Apomixis in Boechera (Brassicaceae)

Plant Breeding and Genetics

Evolution of plant breeding

Plant breeding is considered one of the longest ongoing activities undertaken by humans, who select plants more productive and useful to themselves and the animals for at least 10,000 years ago. The evolution of civilizations paralleled the success of plant breeding, although this has not been recognized by the public. The reason may be lack of understanding of what plant breeding encompasses. ...