Chickpea molecular breeding: New tools and concepts

Molecular tools for breeding basidiomycetes.

The industrial production of edible basidiomycetes is increasing every year as a response to the increasing public demand of them because of their nutritional properties. About a dozen of fungal species can be currently produced for food with sound industrial and economic bases. Notwithstanding, this production is threatened by biotic and abiotic factors that make it necessary to improve the fu...

Biotechnology Provides New Tools for Plant Breeding

Biotechnology in its broadest sense refers to the use of living organisms or their components to provide useful products. This definition can include activities as diverse as making wine, beer, or bread; composting organic materials; releasing parasitic wasps to control insect pests; breeding plants or animals; and producing crops and livestock. In fact, agriculture itself can be considered to ...

Dog breeding and molecular tools: uses and concerns

During the last decades, breeding has been supported by an increasing number of tools providing molecular genetic information. These tools may be based on the neutral variation inside the dog genome (parentage testing, breed assignation, estimation of genetic variability between and within breeds and individuals) or target functional variation (genetic test identifying carriers of inherited dis...

Statistical and Computational Tools in Molecular Breeding and Biotechnology

Genomics-assisted breeding for drought tolerance in chickpea

Terminal drought is one of the major constraints in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), causing more than 50% production losses. With the objective of accelerating genetic understanding and crop improvement through genomicsassisted breeding, a draft genome sequence has been assembled for the CDC Frontier variety. In this context, 544.73Mb of sequence data were assembled, capturing of 73.8% of the ge...