are tandem repetitive DNA sequences. The availability and abundance of SSR markers throughout the cotton Knowledge of genetic diversity and relationships among breeding genome, their polymorphic nature, codominance, and materials has a significant impact on crop improvement. Association between parental divergence and progeny performance has not been polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assay ...

Acytogenetic study was performed on 66 tetraploid cotton cultivars (Gossypium hirsutum L.) and their hybrids. The cultivars studied differed significantly in their chiasma frequency and distribution as well as chromosome pairing indicating their genetic differences. Adjacent and alternate quadrivalents were formed in most of the cultivars. A-A or D-D heterozygote translocations occurred in most...

The research work comprising genetic studies for oil, fatty acid profile, seed cotton yield and lint percentage in eight parental lines (SLH-284, CIM-446, CIM-473, CIM-496, CIM-499, CIM-506, CIM-554, CIM-707) and their F3 populations was carried out during 2011 and 2012 at The University of Agriculture, Peshawar and Nuclear Institute for Food and Agriculture, Peshawar Pakistan. The genetic pote...

Determination of genetic basis of heterosis may promote hybrid production in Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). This study was designed to explore the genetic mechanism of heterosis for yield and yield components in F2: 3 and F2: 4 populations derived from a hybrid 'Xinza No. 1'. Replicated yield field trials of the progenies were conducted in 2008 and 2009. Phenotypic data analyses indicat...