Marker-assisted selection in public breeding programs: the wheat experience

IT HAS BEEN hinted that the recent progress in the area of plant molecular biology and plant genomics have the potential to initiate a novel Green Revolution. However, these discoveries ne to be implemented in novel cultivars to realize that potential. The altercation about transgenic crops has delayed the incorporation of alien gene into plants and significantly increased the require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergone to develop and release transgenic harvests These costs are usually beyond the resources of public breeding programs and, therefore, are not popularly used in most cultivated plants.

Fortunately, biotechnology has provided additional tools that do not require the use of