Salinization is a worldwide environmental problem, which is negatively impacting crop yield
and thus posing a threat to the world's food security. Considering the rising threat of salinity …

Sustaining agricultural production under adverse environmental conditions, such as drought
and high salinity, represents a major challenge. The discovery of key genes and signal …

Arabidopsis thaliana is an important model organism for understanding the genetics and
molecular biology of plants. Its highly selfing nature, small size, short generation time, small …

The demand for traditional herbal medicines has grown exponentially worldwide in the
twenty-first century. Much of this growth is in economically disadvantaged nations seeking …

High-throughput sequencing and genoty** methods are dramatically increasing the
number of observable genetic intraspecies differences that can be exploited as genetic …

This book chapter provides basic information about association map** (AM), also called
as linkage disequilibrium (LD) map**. Association map** has emerged as one of the …

Salinity is the major abiotic stress leading to huge losses in crop productivity. Therefore,
understanding the regulatory mechanisms and subsequently improving salinity tolerance in …

Ionomics Atlas facilitates access, analysis and interpretation of an existing large-scale
heterogeneous dataset consisting of ionomic (elemental composition of an organism) …

Using model organisms to study human disease has many benefits for the experimental
scientist. Primary amongst these is the ability to carry out experimental manipulations, an …

Arabidopsis thaliana is a small flowering plant, a member of the Brassicaceae family with
very small ellipsoid seeds (between 0.04 and 0.17 mm² in Herridge et al.(2011), for …