Genomics and Marker-Assisted Improvement of Vegetable Crops

Translational genomics of Vegetable Crops

The Role of Genomics Research in Improvement of “Orphan” Crops

REFERENCES ing early leads will not translate into commercially viable products ... but those that do may confer larger Bowman, D.T., O.L. May, and D.S. Calhoun. 1996. Genetic base of incremental gains than are available in the present cultiupland cotton cultivars released between 1970 and 1990. Crop Sci. 36:577–581. vated gene pool. Bowman, D.T., O.L. May, and D.S. Calhoun. 1997. Coefficients ...

Exploiting Wild Relatives for Genomics-assisted Breeding of Perennial Crops

Perennial crops are vital contributors to global food production and nutrition. However, the breeding of new perennial crops is an expensive and time-consuming process due to the large size and lengthy juvenile phase of many species. Genomics provides a valuable tool for improving the efficiency of breeding by allowing progeny possessing a trait of interest to be selected at the seed or seedlin...

Rice Variety Improvement Using Marker-Assisted Selection

Molecular marker-assisted selection (MAS) is currently being employed in two areas of rice breeding at the University of Arkansas Rice Research and Extension Center (RREC) in Stuttgart. Presently the objective of the program is to accelerate the development of rice cultivars with improved cooking quality and rice blast disease resistance using two well-characterized molecular markers. A co-domi...

Transplant Age in Vegetable Crops

s. Therefore, more information is necessary concerning cauliflower transplant age. CHINESE CABBAGE [Brassica rapa L. SSP. PEKINENSIS (LOUR.)]. Kratky et al. (1982) in Hawaii found no significant differences in time to maturity, individual head weight, and total yield from Chinese cabbage transplants of 3, 4, 5, and 6 weeks of age. RAPE (Brassica napus ssp. OLEIFERA VAR. NAPUS). In a 3-year stud...