Anthocyanin accumulation in various maize tissues plays important roles in plant growth and development. In addition, some color-related traits can be used as morphological markers in conventional maize breeding processes and purity identification of hybrid seeds. Here, we noticed that the leaf sheath color was controlled by a dominant gene, because purple (PSH) and green leaf sheaths (GSH) wer...

ABSTRACT DNA markers tightly linked to resistance (R) genes provide a very powerful tool for both marker-assisted selection in plant breeding and positional cloning of R genes. In the present study, a linkage of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers to the single dominant gene (Cr2) for resistance to white pine blister rust fungus (Cronartium ribicola) was investigated in western whit...

The development of molecular techniques for genetic analysis has led to a great increase in our knowledge of cereal genetics and our understanding of the structure and behaviour of cereal genomes. These molecular techniques, in particular the use of molecular markers, have been used to monitor DNA sequence variation in and among the species and create new sources of genetic variation by introdu...

DNA amplification fingerprinting (DAF) with mini-hairpins harboring arbitrary "core" sequences at their 3' termini were used to fingerprint a variety of templates, including PCR products and whole genomes, to establish genetic relationships between plant tax at the interspecific and intraspecific level, and to identify closely related fungal isolates and plant accessions. No correlation was obs...

Phytophthora blight (PB) caused by nicotianae is a highly destructive disease in sesame ( Sesamum indicum L.). In this study, we used linkage mapping and genome-wide association study (GWAS) to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) candidate genes associated with PB resistance. The QTL 90 RILs of the Goenbaek × Osan cross using genotyping-by-sequencing detected significant QTLs for resistance ...