DNA molecular markers in plant breeding: current status and recent advancements in genomic selection and genome editing

MA Nadeem, MA Nawaz, MQ Shahid… - Biotechnology & …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
With the development of molecular marker technology in the 1980s, the fate of plant
breeding has changed. Different types of molecular markers have been developed and …

Genoty**‐by‐sequencing approaches to characterize crop genomes: choosing the right tool for the right application

A Scheben, J Batley, D Edwards - Plant biotechnology journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decade, the revolution in sequencing technologies has deeply impacted crop
genoty** practice. New methods allowing rapid, high‐throughput genoty** of entire …

COLD1 confers chilling tolerance in rice

Y Ma, X Dai, Y Xu, W Luo, X Zheng, D Zeng, Y Pan… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Rice is sensitive to cold and can be grown only in certain climate zones. Human selection of
japonica rice has extended its growth zone to regions with lower temperature, while the …

Breeding high-yielding drought-tolerant rice: genetic variations and conventional and molecular approaches

A Kumar, S Dixit, T Ram, RB Yadaw… - Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The increased occurrence and severity of drought stress have led to a high yield decline in
rice in recent years in drought-affected areas. Drought research at the International Rice …

Linkage and Association Map** of Arabidopsis thaliana Flowering Time in Nature

B Brachi, N Faure, M Horton, E Flahauw… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Flowering time is a key life-history trait in the plant life cycle. Most studies to unravel the
genetics of flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana have been performed under greenhouse …

qDTY 1.1 , a major QTL for rice grain yield under reproductive-stage drought stress with a consistent effect in multiple elite genetic backgrounds

P Vikram, BPM Swamy, S Dixit, HU Ahmed… - BMC genetics, 2011 - Springer
Background Drought is one of the most important abiotic stresses causing drastic reductions
in yield in rainfed rice environments. The suitability of grain yield (GY) under drought as a …

Identification and characterization of large-effect quantitative trait loci for grain yield under lowland drought stress in rice using bulk-segregant analysis

R Venuprasad, CO Dalid, M Del Valle, D Zhao… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2009 - Springer
Abstract An F 4: 5 population of 490 recombinant inbred lines (RILs) from the cross Apo/2*
Swarna was used to detect quantitative trait loci (QTL) with large effects on grain yield under …

QGene 4.0, an extensible Java QTL-analysis platform

R Joehanes, JC Nelson - Bioinformatics, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Of many statistical methods developed to date for quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis, only
a limited subset are available in public software allowing their exploration, comparison and …

Detection of two major grain yield QTL in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under heat, drought and high yield potential environments

D Bennett, M Reynolds, D Mullan, A Izanloo… - Theoretical and applied …, 2012 - Springer
A large proportion of the worlds' wheat growing regions suffers water and/or heat stress at
some stage during the crop growth cycle. With few exceptions, there has been no utilisation …

Drought susceptibility of modern rice varieties: an effect of linkage of drought tolerance with undesirable traits

P Vikram, BPM Swamy, S Dixit, R Singh, BP Singh… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Green Revolution (GR) rice varieties are high yielding but typically drought sensitive. This is
partly due to the tight linkage between the loci governing plant height and drought tolerance …