to study the physiological effects of different levels of salt stress on germination and on seedling stages, two seperate experiments were undertaken in rice research institute of iran, amol in 2006. the experiments were conducted in a completely randomized design of three replications in greenhouse. sixteen rice genotypes namely: ahlamitarum, shafagh, gharib, taromzavarak, khazar, mosatarom, g...

Traditional breeding programmes have largely contributed to disseminate the benefits of several quantitative traits in livestock. In developing countries such as Indonesia where animal population scattered throughout the country, it is difficult to invest for molecular research. On the other side, yet, it is worthy asset for breeding purposes. Based on theory and evidence, it has been proved th...

Increasing yield potential of lowland rice remains to be the top priority in rice geneticimprovement programmes, because rice farmers’ primary concern is still grain yield and world rice production has to increase by 1% annually in the next 20 years to meet the demand of the growing population. Improvements in yield potential of irrigated lowland rice were achieved under ample supply of water a...

Plant breeding programs in local regions may have genetic and phenotypic variations that are desirable and shape adaptability during the establishment of local populations. Despite the characterization of genetic population structures in various kinds of populations, the effects of variations in phenotype on agro-economical traits currently remain unclear. In the present study, we evaluated phe...

Four methods of selection for net merit comprising 2 correlated traits were compared in this study: 1) EBV-only index (I₁), which consists of the EBV of both traits (i.e., traditional 2-trait BLUP selection); 2) GEBV-only index (I₂), which comprises the genomic EBV (GEBV) of both traits; 3) GEBV-assisted index (I₃), which combines both the EBV and the GEBV of both traits; and 4) GBV-assisted in...

Poor germination and late seedling establishment are the main obstacles observed for wide spread adoption of direct-seeded rice cultivation in both rainfed irrigated regions due to waterlogged condition soil. The present experiment was carried out identify landraces with anaerobic tolerance development varieties suitable direct seeded cultivation. A total 53 genotypes were evaluated by followin...

In this paper we simulate the breeding process of marker-assisted introgressing a favorable QTL allele from “donor” to “recipient”. During this process, the foreground selection and background selection were made for introgression population simultaneously: foreground selection is making indirect selection of target gene by its closely linked two flanking markers, four selection methods includi...