BACKGROUND Economical cultivation of the oilseed crop Jatropha curcas is currently hampered in part due to the non-availability of purpose-bred cultivars. Although genetic maps and genome sequence data exist for this crop, marker-assisted breeding has not yet been implemented due to a lack of available marker-trait association studies. To identify the location of beneficial alleles for use in p...

in order to evaluate the effect of water deficit stress on agronomic and morpho-physiological traits in eight populations of the triticum urartu species an experiment was experiment was conducted using a split plot design based on a randomized complete block design with three replications at research station of faculty of agriculture, tabriz university in 2010-2011. analysis of variance indicat...

October 2017 d Vol. 175 d No. 2 On the Cover: The architecture of wheat inflorescence and its complexity are among the most important agronomic traits that influence yield. Wheat spikes vary considerably in the number of spikelets, which are specialized reproductive branches. The large and repetitive nature of the three homologous and highly similar subgenomes of wheat has impeded attempts at u...

Genome-wide association mapping studies (GWAS) are frequently used to detect QTL in diverse collections of crop germplasm, based on historic recombination events and linkage disequilibrium across the genome. Generally, diversity panels genotyped with high density SNP panels are utilized in order to assay a wide range of alleles and haplotypes and to monitor recombination breakpoints across the ...

The architecture of wheat (Triticum aestivum) inflorescence and its complexity is among the most important agronomic traits that influence yield. For example, wheat spikes vary considerably in the number of spikelets, which are specialized reproductive branches, and the number of florets, which are spikelet branches that produce seeds. The large and repetitive nature of the three homologous and...

We estimated the genetic gains of the 12th cycle of reciprocal recurrent selection for maize traits of agronomic interest. We used 23 ISSR molecular markers in an attempt to maximize genetic variability among and within populations based on selection of S(1) progenies. To this end, 138 full-sib families were evaluated in a randomized block design in two environments (the municipalities of...

Evaluation of Wide Range Foxtail Millet (Setaria italica L) Germplasms Based on Yield and Some Agronomic Traits