Genetic Mapping and Marker Assisted Selection Basics, Practice and Benefits /

• Main Author: Boopathi, N.Manikanda. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: India : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Botany.; Plant anatomy.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.; Plant Anatomy/Development.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0958-4

Genetic mapping and marker assisted selection (MAS) is considered as one of the major tools in genetic improvement of crop plants in this genomics era. This book describes basics in linkage mapping, step-by-step procedure to perform MAS, achievements made so far in different crops, and limitations a...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Germplasm Characterization: Utilizing the Underexploited Resources
• 2. Mapping Population Development
• 3.Genotyping
• 4. Linkage Map Construction
• 5. Phenotyping
• 6. QTL Identification
• 7. Fine Mapping
• 8. Marker Assisted Selections
• 9. Success Stories in MAS
• 10. Advances in MAS toward genetically improved crop plants
• 11. Recent advances in MAS in major crops
• 12. Future perspectives in MAS.