Md. Mosiur Rahman^1,2, Md. Ruhul Quddus³, Quanle Xu⁴, Muhammad Malek Hossain², Rong Liu¹, Mengwei Li¹, Xin Yan¹, Guan Li¹, Yishan Ji¹, Chenyu Wang¹, Ashutosh Sarker⁵, Tao Yang¹, Xuxiao Zong¹, Md. Monoar Hossain⁶, Saleh Alfarraj⁷, Mohammad Javed Ansari⁸, Sagar Maitra^9,*, Akbar Hossain^10,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.93, No.8, pp. 1781-1804, 2024, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2024.048992 - 30 August 2024

Abstract Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.) is an imperative food crop cultured in dryland agricultural ecology. It is a vital source of dietary protein to millions of populaces living in low-income countries in South-East Asia and Africa. This study highlights the improvement of genomic properties and their application in marker-trait relationships for 17 yield-related characters in 400 grass pea genotypes from China and Bangladesh. These characters were assessed via 56 polymorphic markers using general linear model (GLM) (P+G+Q) and mixed linear model (MLM) (P+G+Q+K) in the tassel software based on the linkage disequilibrium and population structure analysis.… More >

Muhammad Sabar^1,2,#, Shahzad Amir Naveed^1,3,4,#,*, Shahid Masood Shah⁵, Abdul Rehman Khan⁵, Muhammad Musaddiq Shah⁶, Tahir Awan¹, Muhammad Ramzan Khan³, Zaheer Abbas³, Muhammad Arif^1,7,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.92, No.5, pp. 1421-1438, 2023, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2023.025801 - 09 March 2023

Abstract Drought is one of the major abiotic threat to rice production in the context of climate change. Super Basmati is an elite, fine grain basmati rice variety grown in Punjab, Pakistan. Due to drought sensitive in nature, its yield has been facing an alarming situation in production because of gradual decrease in irrigated water for a couple of years. Three reported novel QTLs for drought tolerance were selected for incorporation into Super Basmati by employing marker assisted selection strategy. IR55419-04 with novel QTLs was used as a donor parent. Foreground selection was performed by applying… More >

Rohini Bhat^1,*, Anil Kumar Singh², Muntazir Mushtaq³, Romesh Kumar Salgotra², Manmohan Sharma², Basharat Ahmad Bhat⁴, Umer Basu⁵, Ibrahim Al-Ashkar ⁶, Mohammad Anwar Hossain^7,*, Akihiro Ueda⁸, Ayman El Sabagh⁹

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.91, No.11, pp. 2439-2459, 2022, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2022.020100 - 12 July 2022

Abstract Identification of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) controlling yield and yield-related traits in rice was performed in the F₂ mapping population derived from parental rice genotypes DHMAS and K343. A total of 30 QTLs governing nine different traits were identified using the composite interval mapping (CIM) method. Four QTLs were mapped for number of tillers per plant on chromosomes 1 (2 QTLs), 2 and 3; three QTLs for panicle number per plant on chromosomes 1 (2 QTLs) and 3; four QTLs for plant height on chromosomes 2, 4, 5 and 6; one QTL for spikelet density on… More >

XIAOJUN ZHOU^*, XIAOYU LU, XUBO WANG

BIOCELL, Vol.46, No.11, pp. 2489-2495, 2022, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2022.020311 - 07 July 2022

Abstract Euptelea pleiosperma is a characteristic species of East Asian flora with both ornamental and scientific values. Based on the reduced-representation sequencing (RRS) technology of RAD-Seq, this study conducted high-throughput Illumina paired-end sequencing to find SSR marker information in the genome of E. pleiosperma, and to screen and verify polymorphism of SSR markers. We obtained 5.5G of high-quality data using RAD-Seq. The total number of contigs of the RAD tags was 299,376, with the maximum contig length of 2,062 bp and the average length of 445 bp. From these sequences, we identified 20,718 SSR loci, with a distribution… More >

DEBI RANI DATTA¹, MOHD RAFII YUSOP^1,2,*, AZIZAH MISRAN², MASHITAH JUSOH², YUSUFF OLADOSU¹, FATAI AROLU¹, AZADUL HAQUE¹, NADZIRAH M. SULAIMAN¹

BIOCELL, Vol.45, No.5, pp. 1393-1401, 2021, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2021.015321 - 12 July 2021

Abstract Indo-Burmese region was the primary center of eggplant diversity from where the crop extended to several secondary origins of diversity. In this study, the genetic diversity among fifty-six eggplant accessions collected from three countries was assessed using sixteen polymorphic SSR markers to determine suitable parents for heterotic hybridization. The estimation of genetic diversity among the population of three countries (Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Thailand) varied from 0.57 to 0.74, with Shannon’s index value of 0.65. The mean value of expected heterozygosity and Nei’s index was 0.49, with an average PIC value of 0.83. A dendrogram was… More >

HANNA AMOANIMAA-DEDE, JIACHENG ZHANG, CHUNTAO SU, HONGBO ZHU^*

BIOCELL, Vol.45, No.4, pp. 1095-1105, 2021, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2021.015053 - 22 April 2021

Abstract Sweet potato is a multifunctional root crop with many essential nutrients and bioactive compounds. Due to its genetic complexity and lack of genomic resources, efficient genetic studies and cultivar development lag far behind other major crops. Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) offer an effective molecular marker technology for molecular-based breeding and for locating important loci in crop plants, but only a few have previously been developed in sweet potato. To further explore new SSR markers and accelerate their use in sweet potato genetic studies, genome-wide characterization and development of SSR markers were performed using the recently… More >