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Chapter 7. Application of DNA Markers for Identification and Breeding of Perennial Fruit Crops

  1. Jules Janick
  1. Uri Lavi1,
  2. Perry Cregan2,
  3. Tamar Schaap3,
  4. Jossi Hillel4

Published Online: 28 JUL 2010

DOI: 10.1002/9780470650493.ch7

Book Title

Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 12

Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 12

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How to Cite

Lavi, U., Cregan, P., Schaap, T. and Hillel, J. (2010) Application of DNA Markers for Identification and Breeding of Perennial Fruit Crops, in Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 12 (ed J. Janick), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9780470650493.ch7

Editor Information

  1. Purdue University, USA

Author Information

  1. 1

    Institute of Horticulture, ARO, The Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet-Dagan 50250, Israel

  2. 2

    Soybean and Alfalfa Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS Bldg. 011, HH19 BARC-W, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350, USA

  3. 3

    Department of Human Genetics, Hadassa Medical Center at Ein-Karem, Jerusalem, Israel

  4. 4

    Department of Genetics, The Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 12, Rehovot 76-100 Israel

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 28 JUL 2010
  2. Published Print: 28 JUL 1994

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9780471573449

Online ISBN: 9780470650493

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Keywords:

  • DNA Marker application - for identification and perennial fruit crop breeding;
  • DNA Marker types and role in fruit tree breeding;
  • single site alteration Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP);
  • Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD);
  • Variable Number of Tandem Repeats (VNTR) and VNTR single-locus markers;
  • application of DNA Markers;
  • improvement of breeding methodologies;
  • DNA Markers in perennial fruit crops;
  • informative DNA markers and high polymorphism information coefficient (PIC) number;
  • Breeding Methodologies and Marker Assisted Selection (MAS)

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Introduction

  • Types of DNA Markers

  • Application of DNA Markers

  • DNA Markers in Perennial Fruit Crops

  • Future Prospects

  • Literature Cited

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