Fusarium head blight (FHB) is one of the most destructive diseases of wheat causing significant reduction in grain yield and quality. Development of resistant varieties is an effective, economical and enviromentally safe way to control FHB disease. A major QTL (quantitative trait locus) for Fusarium head blight resistance, Qfhs.ndsu-3BS, derived from cv. Sumai 3, has been identified and verifie...

Kernel hardness is one of the most important characterizations on end-use quality of bread wheat and also used for their marketing classification. Kernel texture, mainly controlled by one major locus (Ha) located on the short arm of chromosome 5D. Two tightly linked genes as puroindolin a , and b covered by this major locus and designed as Pina and Pinb respectively. When both puroindolines are...

     Prolactin, an important polypeptide hormone, is secreted by specialized cells in the anterior pituitary gland and is predominantly under inhibitory influence of the hypothalamus. This hormone plays a crucial role in incubation signaling and egg production in avian. The aim of this study was to determine the polymorphisms at situation +2402 bp (PRL5) and a 24-bp nucleotide in/del at nucleot...

  Abstract   One of the latest methods which can improve the accuracy of prediction and response to selection is the selection based on markers. Research has shown that the POU1F1 (Pit-1) gene has important role in the regulation of animal growth and associated with carcass, weight and milk traits. The purpose of this research was to study polymorphisms of POU1F1 gene and their association with...

Fusarium head blight (FHB) is one of the most destructive diseases of wheat causing significant reduction in grain yield and quality. Development of resistant varieties is an effective, economical and enviromentally safe way to control FHB disease. A major QTL (quantitative trait locus) for Fusarium head blight resistance, Qfhs.ndsu-3BS, derived from cv. Sumai 3, has been identified and verifie...