Euphytica - 178 (1-3), 2011

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Euphytica - 178 (1), 2011



Contents:

Review

Resistance to rice sheath blight (Rhizoctonia solani Kühn) [(teleomorph: Thanatephorus cucumeris (A.B. Frank) Donk.] disease: current status and perspectives

Srinivasachary, Laetitia Willocquet and Serge Savary


Responses to selection of S5 inbreds for broad-based resistance to ear rots and grain mycotoxin contamination caused by Fusarium spp. in maize

D. A. Presello, A. O. Pereyra, J. Iglesias, C. M. Fauguel and D. A. Sampietro, et al.


Molecular diversity and association mapping of quantitative traits in Tibetan wild and worldwide originated barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) germplasm

Dongfa Sun, Wenbin Ren, Genlou Sun and Junhua Peng


Specific resistance to leaf rust expressed at the seedling stage in cultivars grown in France from 1983 to 2007

Henriette Goyeau and Christian Lannou


Sub-arm location of prolamin and EST-SSR loci on chromosome 1Hch from Hordeum chilense

Salim Cherif-Mouaki, Mahmoud Said, Juan B. Alvarez and Adoración Cabrera


Heterosis, molecular diversity, combining ability and their interrelationships in short duration maize (Zea mays L.) across the environments

Pooja Devi and N. K. Singh


Rapid and high-precision marker assisted backcrossing to introgress the SUB1 QTL into BR11, the rainfed lowland rice mega variety of Bangladesh

K. M. Iftekharuddaula, M. A. Newaz, M. A. Salam, H. U. Ahmed and M. A. A. Mahbub, et al.


Genetic distance and hybrid value in tropical maize under P stress and non stress conditions in acid soils

M. L. C. George, F. Salazar, M. Warburton, L. Narro and F. A. Vallejo


Pyramiding of two bacterial blight resistance and a semidwarfing gene in Type 3 Basmati using marker-assisted selection

Deepak Rajpurohit, Rahul Kumar, Mankesh Kumar, Priyanka Paul and Anjali Awasthi, et al.


Identification of QTLs for maize seed vigor at three stages of seed maturity using a RIL population

Liu Jing-bao, Fu Zhi-yuan, Xie Hui-ling, Hu Yan-min and Liu Zong-hua, et al.


Participatory selection assisted by DNA markers for enhanced drought resistance and productivity in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

A. Kanbar and H. E. Shashidhar


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Euphytica - 178 (2), 2011



Contents:

Review

Agronomic and molecular characterization of gamma ray induced banana (Musa sp.) mutants using a multivariate statistical algorithm

Rosa Karla Nogueira Pestanana, Edson Perito Amorim, Cláudia Fortes Ferreira, Vanusia Batista de Oliveira Amorim and Larissa Santos Oliveira, et al.


Construction of a crop—wild hybrid population for broadening genetic diversity in cultivated sunflower and first evaluation of its combining ability: the concept of neodomestication

Hamidreza Nooryazdan, Hervé Serieys, Jacques David, Roberto Bacilieri and André J. Bervillé


Bayesian threshold analysis of breeding values, genetic correlation and heritability of flowering intensity in Eucalyptus cladocalyx under arid conditions

Camila Cané-Retamales, Freddy Mora, Felipe Vargas-Reeve, Sandra Perret and Rodrigo Contreras-Soto


Mating systems in tropical forages: Stylosanthes capitata Vog. and Stylosanthes guianensis (Aubl.) Sw.

Melissa de Oliveira Santos-Garcia, Rosângela Maria Simeao Resende, Lucimara Chiari, Maria Imaculada Zucchi and Anete Pereira de Souza


Overcoming pre-fertilization barriers in the wide cross between Chrysanthemumgrandiflorum (Ramat.) Kitamura and C. nankingense (Nakai) Tzvel. by using special pollination techniques

Chun-Qing Sun, Zhi-Zhe Huang, Yan-Li Wang, Fa-Di Chen and Nian-Jun Teng, et al.


Pollen morphology as fertility predictor in hybrid tea roses

Luca Pipino, Marie-Christine Van Labeke, Andrea Mansuino, Valentina Scariot and Annalisa Giovannini, et al.


Genetic, quantitative and microscopic evidence for fusion of haploid nuclei and growth of somatic calli in cultured ms1035 tomato anthers

Patricia Corral-Martínez, Fernando Nuez and José M. Seguí-Simarro


Molecular markers assist in the development of diverse inbred backcross lines in European Long cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)

Isabelle Y. Delannay and Jack E. Staub


Genetic variability of seed-quality traits in gamma-induced mutants of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) under water-stressed condition

P. Haddadi, B. Yazdi-samadi, M. Berger, M. R. Naghavi and A. Calmon, et al.


Marker-assisted backcross selection in an interspecific Cucumis population broadens the genetic base of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)

Tusar K. Behera, Jack E. Staub, Snigdha Behera, Isabelle Y. Delannay and Jin Feng Chen


Parental effects on the performance of cultivated × wild species hybrids in potato

Shelley Jansky


Development of tomato SSR markers from anchored BAC clones of chromosome 12 and their application for genetic diversity analysis and linkage mapping

Subramaniam Geethanjali, Palchamy Kadirvel, Robert de la Pena, Eguru Sreenivasa Rao and Jaw-Fen Wang


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Euphytica - 178 (3), 2011



Contents:

Quantitative trait loci controlling rice seed germination under salt stress

Zhoufei Wang, Jianfei Wang, Yongmei Bao, Yunyu Wu and Hongsheng Zhang


Heritability and predicted selection response of yield components and fibre properties in an inter-specific derived RIL population of cotton

Shiming Liu, Danny J. Llewellyn, Warwick N. Stiller, John Jacobs and Jean-Marc Lacape, et al.


Quantitative trait loci for temperature-sensitive resistance to Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici in wheat cultivar Flinor

J. Feng, L. L. Zuo, Z. Y. Zhang, R. M. Lin and Y. Y. Cao, et al.


Quantitative trait loci associated with seed set under high temperature stress at the flowering stage in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

Yinghui Xiao, Yi Pan, Lihua Luo, Guilian Zhang and Huabing Deng, et al.


Drought tolerance variability in S1 pollinator lines developed from a sugar beet open population

M. Ahmadi, E. Majidi Heravan, S. Y. Sadeghian, M. Mesbah and F. Darvish


Characterization of resistance gene analogs from Gossypium arboreum and their evolutionary relationships with homologs from tetraploid cottons

Muhammad Tehseen Azhar, Imran Amin, Aftab Bashir and Shahid Mansoor


Enhancement of salt tolerance in alfalfa transformed with the gene encoding for betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase

Zi-Hui Liu, Hong-Mei Zhang, Guo-Liang Li, Xiu-Lin Guo and Shou-Yi Chen, et al.


Could EST-based markers be used for the marker-assisted selection of drought tolerant barley (Hordeum vulgare) lines?

Fruzsina Szira, Andreas Börner, Kerstin Neumann, Khalil Zaynali Nezhad and Gábor Galiba, et al.


Investigation of pollen competition between wild and cultivated sorghums (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) using simple sequence repeats markers

Moses M. Muraya, Hartwig H. Geiger, Santie de Villiers, Fabrice Sagnard and Ben M. Kanyenji, et al.


Seedling salt tolerance in tomato

Junming Li, Lei Liu, Yuling Bai, Pujuan Zhang and Richard Finkers, et al.


Patterns of meiosis in ABDR amphihaploids depend on the specific type of univalent chromosome division

O. G. Silkova, A. I. Shchapova and V. K. Shumny


Quantitative trait loci for seed dormancy in rice

Wei Li, Lei Xu, Xufeng Bai and Yongzhong Xing


Evaluation of seedling cold tolerance in rice cultivars: a comparison of visual ratings and quantitative indicators of physiological changes

Sang-Ic Kim and Thomas H. Tai



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