Use of molecular markers in breeding for soluble solids content in tomato a re-examination.
Sinclair, T. R. Is transpiration efficiency a viable plant trait in breeding for crop improvement?
Finally, outcomes from a brainstorming discussion at the end of the conference are summarized, representing the authors' opinions on trends in breeding for a changing world.
Drive4EU, now two years into the four-year project, has plots of Russian dandelions growing in Belgium, the Netherlands and Kazakhstan and is making progress in breeding for higher yields, improving cultivation and harvesting, and scaling up extraction.
Another plant collected under the U.S.D.A. Longwood Cooperative Pro gram is Canna X Moonlight which has been distributed by the U.S.D.A. to various canna breeders as a possible parent plant in breeding for pure white flowering hybrids.
As reported by TCi partner HarvestPlus, there has been a breakthrough in breeding for vitamin A in maize (corn) by a team of researchers from Purdue, Cornell and Michigan State.
Methods used in breeding plants for disease resistance are similar to those used in breeding for other characters except that two organisms are involved the host plant and the pathogen.
To distinguish Velchi from other non-fragrant indica accessions, a new marker (velbadh2-p-UTR) has been designed to identify this 5 bp difference, which could distinguish 'Velchi' from non-fragrant rice accessions and can be useful in breeding for development of fragrant rice varieties via marker-assisted selection.
Therefore, in breeding for low SIS, the corresponding Pokkali allele at qSIS5.1b is desirable.
These results suggest that the current efforts in breeding for heat tolerance will also be effective under projected climate change.
This aids in the discovery of several genes that could be deployed for use in breeding for rice salt tolerance.
