Identifying Superior Snow Pea Breeding Lines

Genomic Tools in Pea Breeding Programs: Status and Perspectives

Pea (Pisum sativum L.) is an annual cool-season legume and one of the oldest domesticated crops. Dry pea seeds contain 22-25% protein, complex starch and fiber constituents, and a rich array of vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals which make them a valuable source for human consumption and livestock feed. Dry pea ranks third to common bean and chickpea as the most widely grown pulse in the wo...

Supaeromaculata Lines in Pea (Pisum sativum L.) Obtained Following Mutagenesis

Six pea (Pisum sativum L.) mutant lines characterized by more extensive expression of the patches of silver flecking (aeromaculata) were isolated following mutagenesis. Line III/122 demonstrated the strongest expression of the supaeromaculata phenotype; the silver flecks covered large area of leaf surface. The phenotype of 1/221, 2/123, 3/13, 2/1413 and X/3 was expressed clearly but quite weake...

The use of topcrossws to select for superior male sterile lines in sorghum

Breeding and Genetics Symposium: systems biology in animal breeding: Identifying relationships among markers, genes, and phenotypes.

The advent of cheaply available high-throughput genetic and genomic techniques has equipped animal geneticists with an unprecedented ability to generate massive amounts of molecular data. As a result, large lists of genes differentially expressed in many experimental conditions of interests have been reported and, likewise, the association of an evergrowing number of DNA variants with phenotype...

Breeding erect plant type sweetpotato lines using cross breeding and gamma-ray irradiation

Few sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas Lam.) cultivars with erect plant type are available despite their advantages over spreading type, such as simplicity of cultivation and ability to adapt to limited space. One of the reasons is insufficiency of their agronomic characteristics for table use. So, it is important to overcome these drawbacks of ER-type lines. We attempted to breed new erect plant typ...