Microsatellite Variations of Elite Setaria Varieties Released during Last Six Decades in China.

ABSTRACT: Crop improvement is a multifaceted micro-evolutionary process, involving changes in breeding approaches, planting configurations and consumption preferences of human beings. Recent research has started to identify the specific genes or genomic regions correlate to improved agronomic traits, however, an apparent blank between the genetic structure of crop elite varieties and their improving histories in diverse modern breeding programs is still in existence. Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) was one of the earliest cereal crops to be domesticated and served as a staple crop for early civilizations in China, where it is still widely grown today. In the present trial, a panel of foxtail millet elite varieties, which were released in the last sixty years in different geographical regions of Chi

SUBMITTER: Jia G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4416935 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature