The importance of plant genetic diversity (PGD) is now being recognized as a specific area
since exploding population with urbanization and decreasing cultivable lands are the critical …

Evaluation of the genetic diversity among populations is an essential prerequisite for the
preservation of endangered species. Thousands of new accessions are introduced into …

Vegetables are an integral part of the human diet worldwide. Traditional breeding
approaches have been used extensively to develop new cultivars of vegetables with …

Germplasm collections of cultivated plants constitute the source for further genetic progress.
These collections gained further interest with approaches for tracking allelic variants …

Due to their highly polymorphic and codominant nature, simple-sequence repeat (SSR)
markers are a common choice for assaying genetic diversity and genetic map**. In this …

Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) and spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) are cultivated in many
countries around the world. Their production in the United States is concentrated mostly in …

Current knowledge of wild Lactuca L. species, their taxonomy, biogeography, gene-pools,
germplasm collection quality and quantity, and accession availability is reviewed in this …

Lettuce (Lactuca spp.) is an annual and self-pollinating crop that belongs to the Asteraceae
(Compositae) family. It is one of the most globally essential commercial vegetable crops …

Dominant and co-dominant molecular markers are routinely used in plant genetic research.
In the present study we assessed the success-rate of three marker-systems for estimating …

Abstract Introduction Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) is generally not specifically acknowledged
for its taste and nutritional value, while its cultivation suffers from limited resistance against …