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Application of molecular biology in plant breeding is molecular breeding. The process of developing new crop varieties through conventional means can take almost 25 years, but the application of biotechnology has considerably shortened the time to 7–10 years for deriving new crop varieties for commercial exploitation. One of the tools for easier and faster selection of plant traits is marker-assisted selection (MAS). The areas of molecular breeding include QTL mapping or gene discovery, marker-assisted selection and genomic selection, genetic engineering and genetic transformation.
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Priyadarshan, P.M. (2019). Molecular Breeding. In: PLANT BREEDING: Classical to Modern. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7095-3_23
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