Molecular Markers and Molecular Breeding in Plants

Molecular Markers in Breeding Programme: The advent of molecular techniques played a significant role in increase our knowledge of cereal genetics and behaviour of cereal genomics. While RFLP markers have been the basis for most work in crop plants, valuable markers have been generated from RAPD and AFLPs. Recently, other improvised molecular marker such as simple sequence repeats (SSR), microsatellite [...]