Marker-assisted selection (MAS) refers to the use of molecular markers to assist phenotypic
selections in crop improvement. Several types of molecular markers, such as single …

The common potato, Solanum tuberosum L., is the third most important food crop and is
grown and consumed worldwide. Indigenous cultivated (landrace) potatoes and wild potato …

The objective of this research was to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and to
develop an Illumina Infinium BeadChip that contained over 50,000 SNPs from soybean …

Background Association analysis is an alternative to conventional family-based methods to
detect the location of gene (s) or quantitative trait loci (QTL) and provides relatively high …

Highly parallel SNP genoty** platforms have been developed for some important crop
species, but these platforms typically carry a high cost per sample for first-time or small-scale …

Association map** is a method for detection of gene effects based on linkage
disequilibrium (LD) that complements QTL analysis in the development of tools for molecular …

Different approaches (including association studies) have recently been adopted for the
functional characterization of allelic variation in plants and to identify sequence motifs …

Soybean has undergone several genetic bottlenecks. These include domestication in Asia
to produce numerous Asian landraces, introduction of relatively few landraces to North …

During the last two decades, DNA-based molecular markers have been extensively utilized
for a variety of studies in both plant and animal systems. One of the major uses of these …

Assessment of genomic DNA sequence variation and genotype calling in autotetraploids
implies the ability to distinguish among five possible alternative allele copy number states …