Many wild species are used to introduce useful traits, such as disease resistance (Phomopsis stem cancer, Sclerotinia wilt), cytoplasmic male sterility and increased oil content to the cultivated crop by introgression.
Triticum monococcum (2 n = 2 x = 14) is an ancient diploid wheat with many useful traits and is used as a model for wheat gene discovery.
The design involves a) identifying new accessions with useful traits validated by phenotyping, b) using new accessions together with an elite line to produce a MAGIC population, c) breaking unfavorable linkages (adopted from Bandillo et al. 2013)., and d) producing breeding-ready resources.
The four cultivated species listed above are therefore ideal material for improving our comparative genomics-based understanding of the gene evolution related to domestication within and among Vigna species and for characterizing useful traits as quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for use in breeding.
Efforts to use these resources have led to significant success in the transfer of useful traits into cultivated rice (Brar and Khush 2002).
Genetic analysis using CSSLs provides a systematic research flow from the detection of QTLs for useful traits to their cloning and molecular breeding (Fig. 1).
They were pre-selected based on their geographical origins, useful traits, available molecular and genetic tools, as well as genetic relationships assessed using SSR fingerprinting [ 8].
Very useful traits in a newborn.
A fearsome will to win is one of the Spaniard's most useful traits.
Many farmers like genetically engineered crops because they contain useful traits, like pest resistance.
There are twenty-four species and up to a hundred thousand varieties within those species enough to find plenty of useful traits.
