Phenolic secondary metabolites are only produced by plants wherein they play important
roles in both biotic and abiotic defense in seed plants as well as being potentially important …

The progress made in DNA marker technology has been tremendous and exciting. DNA
markers have provided valuable tools in various analyses ranging from phylogenetic …

Advances in the flavonoid field have been nothing short of spectacular over the last 20
years. While the medical field has noticed flavonoids for their potential antioxidant …

Plants may also be resistant to arthropods via the tolerance category of resistance, as
defined in Chapter 1, by possessing the ability to withstand or recover from damage caused …

Treating messenger RNA transcript abundances as quantitative traits and map** gene
expression quantitative trait loci for these traits has been pursued in gene-specific ways …

The diversity of metabolites found in plants is by far greater than in most other organisms.
Metabolic profiling techniques, which measure many of these compounds simultaneously …

In recent years, molecular marker technology in higher plants has witnessed a shift from the
so-called random DNA markers (RDMs), developed in the past arbitrarily from genomic DNA …

Classical studies in genetics involving aneuploidy and ploidy comparisons and sex-
determination mechanisms indicated a balance phenomenon such that changes of …

Plants are unrivaled in the natural world in both the number and complexity of secondary
metabolites they produce, and the ubiquitous phenylpropanoids and the lineage-specific …

Evidence from a variety of data suggests that regulatory mechanisms in multicellular
eukaryotes have evolved in such a manner that the stoichiometric relationship of the …