Plant breeding with marker-assisted selection in Brazil
Over the past three decades, molecular marker studies reached extraordinary advances, especially for sequencing and bioinformatics techniques. Marker-assisted selection became part of the breeding program routines of important seed companies, in order to accelerate and optimize the cultivar deve...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brazilian Society of Plant Breeding
2014-03-01
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| Series: | Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sbmp.org.br/cbab/siscbab/uploads/c8eb9792-ed96-5716.pdf |
| Summary: | Over the past three decades, molecular marker studies reached extraordinary advances, especially for sequencing and
bioinformatics techniques. Marker-assisted selection became part of the breeding program routines of important seed companies, in
order to accelerate and optimize the cultivar developing processes. Private seed companies increasingly use marker-assisted selection,
especially for the species of great importance to the seed market, e.g. corn, soybean, cotton, and sunflower. In the Brazilian public
institutions few breeding programs use it efficiently. The possible reasons are: lack of know-how, lack of appropriate laboratories,
few validated markers, high cost, and lack of urgency in obtaining cultivars. In this article we analyze the use and the constraints of
marker-assisted selection in plant breeding programs of Brazilian public institutes |
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| ISSN: | 1518-7853 1984-7033 |