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 …

Environmental stresses, such as drought, have negative effects on crop yield. Drought is a
stress whose impact tends to increase in some critical regions. However, the worldwide …

A total of 57.8 Mb of publicly available rice (Oryza sativa L.) DNA sequence was searched to
determine the frequency and distribution of different simple sequence repeats (SSRs) in the …

Chickpea ranks third among the food legume crops production in the world. However, the
genomic resources available for chickpea are still very limited. In the present study, the …

Comparisons of flowering plant genomes reveal multiple rounds of ancient polyploidy
characterized by large intragenomic syntenic blocks. Three such whole-genome duplication …

Genes detected by wheat expressed sequence tags (ESTs) were mapped into chromosome
bins delineated by breakpoints of 159 overlap** deletions. These data were used to …

A new explanation for the emergence of heavy (GC‐rich) isochores is proposed, based on
the study of thermostability, bendability, ability to B–Z transition and curvature of the DNA …

Codon usage in nuclear genes of four monocot and three dicot species was analyzed to find
general patterns in codon choice of plant species. Codon bias was correlated with GC …

Background Ocimum L. of family Lamiaceae is a well known genus for its ethnobotanical,
medicinal and aromatic properties, which are attributed to innumerable phenylpropanoid …

Enormous genomic resources have been developed for plants in the monocot order Poales;
however, it is not clear how representative the Poales are for the monocots as a whole. The …