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- Title
Plant breeding with marker-assisted selection in Brazil.
- Authors
Sakiyama, Ney Sussumu; Cancela Ramos, Helaine Christine; Caixeta, Eveline Teixeira; Pereira, Messias Gonzaga
- Abstract
Over the past three decades, molecular marker studies reached extraordinary advances, especially for sequencing and bioinformatics techniques. Marker-assisted selection became part of the breeding program routines of important seed companies, in order to accelerate and optimize the cultivar developing processes. Private seed companies increasingly use marker-assisted selection, especially for the species of great importance to the seed market, e.g. corn, soybean, cotton, and sunflower. In the Brazilian public institutions few breeding programs use it efficiently. The possible reasons are: lack of know-how, lack of appropriate laboratories, few validated markers, high cost, and lack of urgency in obtaining cultivars. In this article we analyze the use and the constraints of marker-assisted selection in plant breeding programs of Brazilian public institutes.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; PLANT breeding; BIOMARKERS; BIOINFORMATICS; NUCLEOTIDE sequence; SEED industry
- Publication
Crop Breeding & Applied Biotechnology, 2014, Vol 14, Issue 1, p54
- ISSN
1518-7853
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/s1984-70332014000100009