The recent advent of molecular technologies has changed the way plant breeders identify and select their germplasm as genetic variation can now be assessed at the DNA level.
Crop Breeding: Methods and Prools
presents detailed guidelines and tutorials that suit different needs and capacity from small laboratories analyzing molecular markers on a one-by-one basis to the increasingly popular high-throughput prools for high capacity laboratories. Topics covered include breeding strategy for the selection of an ideal variety or genetic ideo type, prools for breeders using molecular markers in selection programs and for laboratories providing molecular services to breeding programs, statistical programs and software to aid implementation of molecular data into breeding programs and methodologies that facilitate the generation of genetic diversity and its characterization. Written in the successful
Methods in Molecular Biology
series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible prools and notes on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
Authoritative and easily accessible,
will help in expanding the use of molecular technologies for the creation of tomorrow’s crop varieties.