Linkage Mapping and Mutation in Plant Breeding.

Developments in Mutation Assisted Plant Breeding - NTR2009 Supplement

Spontaneous mutation, the naturally occurring heritable change to genetic material which played a pivotal role in biological evolution and formed the basis for speciation and domestication of both crops and animals, can be artificially induced and supports the maintenance of biodiversity. Since the discovery of X-ray and other forms of radiation at the end of the 19th century and the ensuing de...

Plant breeding: Induced mutation technology for crop improvement

present forms of life are the product of three factors: • mutation, the fundamental source of heritable variation, • environmental factors, which influence the selection of those mutations that survive and reproduce, and • time, during which the genotype and environment constantly interact and evolutionary change is realized. Genetic variation found in nature does not represent the original spe...

Plant Breeding and Genetics

Genomics and Plant Breeding

The recent announcements of the breakthroughs in obtaining the oil palm genome sequence map herald a new chapter in oil palm genetic improvement. These breakthroughs will spur the further development of oil palm genomics. This article examines how genomics would impact plant and oil palm breeding. The knowledge derived from genomics research in terms of the DNA structure of a gene, how it funct...

Mapping and Linkage Analysis

Bioinformatics is a discipline at the intersection of biology, computer science, information technology andmathematics. It aims at integrating and analysing awealth of biological data with the aim of identifying and assigning a function to each of the parts list of a living organism and understanding the incredibly complex processes that define life at a systems level. It is applied, for exampl...