Molecular markers are effective tools used to ‘flag’ the location of a specific gene or inheritance definite trait. Markers unique DNA fragments that can be identified inside entire genome. The development molecular combined with high throughput technologies have paved way for achieving desirable traits as well induced biotic and abiotic stress tolerance in plant, which enhanced crop breeding. ...

Department of Plant Sciences, Section of Crop and Ecosystem Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95616–8780 (P.G.); National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 (W.D.B.); Raymond F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding (E.C.B.), and United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Department of Agronomy (R.C.S.), Iowa State University, Ames,...

The objective of this work was to compare two different methods concerning their efficiency in a selection of soybean genotypes for Al tolerance. Selection for aluminium tolerance is necessary to the full adaptation of the soybean crop in the acid soils of the Brazilian Savannahs (Cerrados). Field techniques, however, are laborious and time consuming. The present results indicate that hill plot...

M.K. PANDEY, H. WANG, L. QIAO, S. FENG, P. KHERA*, A.K. CULBREATH, the University of Georgia, Department of Plant Pathology, Tifton, GA; M.L. WANG, N.A. BARKLEY, USDA-ARS, Plant Genetics Resources Conservation Unit, Griffin, GA; J. WANG, the University of Florida, Department of Agronomy, Gainesville, FL; C.C. HOLBROOK, USDA-ARS, Crop Genetics and Breeding Research Unit, Tifton, GA; M.K. PANDEY,...

The art of plant breeding was developed long before the laws of genetics became known. The advent of the principles of genetics at the turn of the last century catalyzed the growth of breeding, making it a science-based technology that has been instrumental in substantial improvements in crop plants. Largely through exploitation of hybrid vigor, grain yields of several cereal crops were substan...