Identification of novel drought-tolerant-associated SNPs in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).

ABSTRACT: Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is a leguminous in high demand for human nutrition and a very important agricultural product. Production of common bean is constrained by environmental stresses such as drought. Although conventional plant selection has been used to increase production yield and stress tolerance, drought tolerance selection based on phenotype is complicated by associated physiological, anatomical, cellular, biochemical, and molecular changes. These changes are modulated by differential gene expression. A common method to identify genes associated with phenotypes of interest is the characterization of Single Nucleotide Polymorphims (SNPs) to link them to specific functions. In this work, we selected two drought-tolerant parental lines from Mesoamerica, Pinto Villa, and Pi

SUBMITTER: Villordo-Pineda E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4508514 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature