… order of their P-value revealed the same trend. Although average calling discordance
increased as the average P-value of a marker group decreased, even low-quality markers (P < 75…

In the last 20 years, we have observed an exponential growth of the DNA sequence data
and simular increase in the volume of DNA polymorphism data generated by numerous …

We must mine the biodiversity in seed banks to help to overcome food shortages, urge
Susan McCouch and colleagues.

The CGIAR crop improvement (CI) programs, unlike commercial CI programs, which are
mainly geared to profit though meeting farmers’ needs, are charged with meeting multiple …

… experiment if it was scored with a probability of P > 0.95 in at least 90% of the slides … P <
0.95 were scored as missing. Slides with <90% of the identified polymorphic markers scored at P …

Background Molecular marker technologies are undergoing a transition from largely serial
assays measuring DNA fragment sizes to hybridization-based technologies with high …

… two species, although Mexican and Guatemalan accessions of P. coccineus separate
slightly, and an ecotype of P. polyanthus exists in South America (S. Beebe, unpublished data). …

Soil microbial communities are responsible for important physiological and metabolic
processes. In the last decade soil microorganisms have been frequently analysed by cultivation‐…

Undomesticated wild species, crop wild relatives, and landraces represent sources of
variation for wheat improvement to address challenges from climate change and the growing …

Background Sorghum genome mapping based on DNA markers began in the early 1990s
and numerous genetic linkage maps of sorghum have been published in the last decade, …