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Marker-Assisted Breeding for Disease Resistance in Crop Plants

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Breeding disease-resistant crop varieties is a cornerstone of disease management. Marker-assisted selection (MAS) incorporates a plethora of plant genomic resources into the process of breeding disease-resistant crops. Although there are species-specific and disease-specific considerations, much of the procedures and theory behind MAS are conserved. Using molecular markers is most likely to increase the efficiency of the breeding process in cases where disease resistance is controlled by one or few genes, and those genes have a large effect on the resistance phenotype. In cases where disease resistance is controlled by many genes of small effect, genomic selection (GS) may be more efficient than MAS or phenotypic selection. GS is an emerging technology, and many of the statistical principles and procedures are still being developed. This chapter should begin to inform breeders as to the potential and the details to consider if using a marker-assisted breeding tool in their plant breeding program.

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  1. Plant, Soil and Microbial Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Paul Joseph Collins & Zixiang Wen

  2. Agronomy Department, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA

    Shichen Zhang

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  2. Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops, Khudwani, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Shabir Hussain Wani

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Collins, P.J., Wen, Z., Zhang, S. (2018). Marker-Assisted Breeding for Disease Resistance in Crop Plants. In: Gosal, S., Wani, S. (eds) Biotechnologies of Crop Improvement, Volume 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94746-4_3

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