Development of ESTs from chickpea roots and their use in diversity analysis of the Cicer genus.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chickpea is a major crop in many drier regions of the world where it is an important protein-rich food and an increasingly valuable traded commodity. The wild annual Cicer species are known to possess unique sources of resistance to pests and diseases, and tolerance to environmental stresses. However, there has been limited utilization of these wild species by chickpea breeding programs due to interspecific crossing barriers and deleterious linkage drag. Molecular genetic diversity analysis may help predict which accessions are most likely to produce fertile progeny when crossed with chickpea cultivars. While, trait-markers may provide an effective tool for breaking linkage drag. Although SSR markers are the assay of choice for marker-assisted selection of specific trait

SUBMITTER: Buhariwalla HK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1215491 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature