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Marker-assisted breeding
approaches for enhancing
stress tolerance in crops in
changing climate
scenarios
Uma Maheswar Singh, Gunjan Tiwari,
B. Kalyana Babu and Rakesh Srivastava
Contents
Abstract
398
17.1 Introduction
398
17.2 Key biotechnological strategies for improving
stress tolerance
399
Molecular breeding approach
399
Genetic engineering approach
400
17.3 Section I: Molecular markers and their
applications for crop improvement
400
Molecular markers
401
17.4 Section II: Molecular markers for crop improvement
406
Construction of linkage maps
407
Mapping populations
409
Identification of polymorphism
411
Linkage analysis of markers
413
Genetic distance and mapping functions
413
QTL analysis
415
Conventional breeding and marker-assisted
backcrossing
425
Improving quantitative traits using MAS:
Case study
429
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