Crop Breeding

1. Defining a Genetic Ideotype for Crop Improvement

Richard M. Trethowan

2. From Genes to Markers: Exploiting Gene Sequence Information to Develop Tools for Plant Breeding

Melissa Garcia and Diane E. Mather

3. Temperature Switch PCR (TSP) - A Gel-Based Molecular Marker Technique for Investigating Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms

Thanh Le Phuoc and Kelvin Khoo

4. Multiplex-Ready Technology for Mid-Throughput Genotyping of Molecular Markers

Julien Bonneau and Matthew Hayden

5. Genotyping by High-Resolution Melting Analysis

Elise J. Tucker and Bao Lam Huynh

6. Bi-Allelic SNP Genotyping Using the TaqMan® Assay

John Woodward

7. SNP Genotyping: The KASPTM Assay

Chunlin He, John Holme, and Jeffrey Anthony

8. Rindsel: An R Package for Phenotypic and Molecular Selection Indices Used in Plant Breeding

S. Perez-Elizalde, J. J. Ceron-Rojas, J. Crossa, Delphine Fleury, and G. Alvarado

9. OptiMAS: A Decision Support Tool to Conduct Marker-Assisted Selection Programs

Fabio Valente, Franck Gauthier, Nicolas Bardol, Guylaine Blanc, Johann Joets, Alain Charcosset, and Laurence Moreau

10. Genomic Selection in Plant Breeding

M. A. Newell and J.-L Jannink

11. Simulated Breeding with QU-GENE Graphical User Interface

Adrian Hathorn, Sctoo Chapman, and Mark Dieters

12. The Control of Recombination in Wheat by Ph1 and Its Use in Breeding

Graham Moore

13. TILLING for Plant Breeding

Peter Sharp and Chongmei Dong

14. In vitro Culture for Doubled Haploids: Tools for Molecular Breeding

Sue Broughton, Parminder K. Sidhu, and Philip A. Davies

15. Biolistic Transformation of Wheat with Centrophenoxine as a Synthetic Auxin

Ainur Ismagul, Gulnur Oskakova, John C. Harris, and Serik Eliby

16. Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation of Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)

Ainur Ismagul, Iryna Mazonka, Corrine Callegari, and Serik Eliby

17. qPCR for Quantification of Transgene Expression and Determination of Transgene