Among the most important Mediterranean annual crops, durum wheat is widely grown in drought-prone areas. Therefore, improving water-use efficiency (WUE) of dur
Commercially grown sugarcane cultivars are advanced generation hybrids between two polyploid ancestor species, S. off icinarum L. (x=10, 2n=8x=80) and S. spont
The advantage of being able to investigate the abundance and composition of millions of sequences in parallel has established microarrays as an attractive tech
Asian rice gall midge (GM) is a major rice pest in South China. Breeding resistance varieties has been a viable and ecologically acceptable approach for managi
Development of cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) lines with elongated uppermost internode (EUI) trait provides a genetic option to eliminate the use of GA 3 in hyb
The development of high throughput molecular marker technologies and automated scoring of multiple markers simultaneously has opened the possibilities for the d