Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.), a member of the Asteraceae family, is an important plant grown in world as source vegetable oil. In addition, it versatile crop that also used biodiesel, animal feed, spice, dye, and medicinal plant. this study, SRAP markers were to determine genetic diversity relationships between four local three registered safflower cultivars for use cross-breeding progra...

Urtica dioica is an important medicinal plant which is widely distributed in Mazandaran province (North of Iran). In this study for the first time Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) and Inter-simple Sequence Repeat (ISSR) markers were used for detection of genetic polymorphism in Mazandaran nettle. Ten AFLP primer combinations and seventeen ISSR markers were utilized. AFLP produced 830...

BACKGROUND Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) is a warm-season C4 grass that is a target lignocellulosic biofuel species. In many regions, drought stress is one of the major limiting factors for switchgrass growth. The objective of this study was to evaluate the drought tolerance of 49 switchgrass genotypes. The relative drought stress tolerance was determined based on a set of parameters includ...

Molecular markers are an important tool for plant breeding. Since the 1980s, in response to technology development, molecular marker approaches have been further diversified. The establishment of new-generation sequencing and high-throughput phenotyping has greatly decreased time genotype large numbers individuals. For breeders who not very familiar with techniques want catch up advances field,...

in order to develop molecular markers based on expressed sequence tag (est) linked to fusarium head blight (fhb) resistance genes in wheat, the biological function of 8660 ests deposited in data bank were studied following which 260 ests with identified biological function were selected. in total, 62 primer combinations were designed based on conserved and non conserved sequences. linkage and q...

The loss of plant genetic resources has made necessary the development of new ex situ conservation methods. Advances in biotechnology provide new methods for plant germplasm conservation and evaluation. Biotechnological tools like in vitro culture, cryopreservation, and molecular markers offer a valuable alternative to plant diversity studies, management of genetic resources and ultimately cons...