Recognizing the enormous potential of DNA markers in plant breeding, many agricultural
research centers and plant breeding institutes have adopted the capacity for marker …

Increasing severity of high temperature worldwide presents an alarming threat to the
humankind. As evident by massive yield losses in various food crops, the escalating adverse …

Rice, the primary source of dietary calories for half of humanity, is the first crop plant for
which a high-quality reference genome sequence from a single variety was produced. We …

Rice is a staple and most important security food crop consumed by almost half of the
world's population. More rice production is needed due to the rapid population growth in the …

To make advances in rice breeding it is important to understand the relatedness and
ancestry of introduced rice accessions, and identify SSR markers associated with …

Rice double-haploid (DH) lines of an indica and japonica cross were grown at nine different
locations across four countries in Asia. Genotype-by-environment (G× E) interaction analysis …

In vitro androgenesis is an important component of plant biotechnology when the pollen
grains are forced to switch from their normal pollen developmental pathway towards an …

The productivity of sorghum is mainly determined by agronomically important traits. The
genetic bases of these traits have historically been dissected and analysed through …

Plant growth and development are tightly linked to primary metabolism and are subject to
natural variation. In order to obtain an insight into the genetic factors controlling biomass and …

Background Improving yield and yield-related traits is the crucial goal in breeding
programmes of cereals. Meta-QTL (MQTL) analysis discovers the most stable QTLs …