A review of microsatellite markers and their applications in rice breeding programs to improve blast disease resistance

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 22499-22528

  Miah, Gous ^a   Rafii, Mohd Y ^a   Ismail, Mohd R ^a   Puteh, Adam B ^a   Rahim, Harun A ^b   Islam, Nurul Kh ^a   Latif, Mohammad Abdul ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b MALAYSIAN NUCLEAR AGENCY   (Malaysia)

^c BANGLADESH RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Blast resistance; Marker assisted selection; Marker development and application; Rice breeding; Simple sequence repeats

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; BACKCROSSING; BLAST DISEASE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GROWTH; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; RICE; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ALLELES; BREEDING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENETIC MARKERS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES;

EID: 84887553677     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms141122499     Document Type: Review

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