Plant Breeding - 130 (3-6), 2011

Plant Breeding - 130 (3), 2011


Contents:

REVIEW


Towards marker-assisted selection in pulses: a review (pages 297–313)

Jitendra Kumar, Arbind K. Choudhary, Ramesh K. Solanki and Aditya Pratap


ORIGINAL ARTICLES


Potentiality of evenly distributed hypervariable microsatellite markers in marker-assisted breeding of rice (pages 314–320)

Gonela Narshimulu, Mohammed Jamaloddin, Lakshminarayana R. Vemireddy, Ghnata Anuradha and Eea Siddiq


QTL mapping for resistance to strip virus disease in rice (pages 321–327)

BaoXiang Wang, Ling Jiang, YingXin Zhang, WenWei Zhang, MaoQing Wang, XiaNian Cheng, Xi Liu, HuQu Zhai and JianMin Wan


Identification of QTLs for seed dormancy in rice (Oryza sativa L.) (pages 328–332)

Kun Xie, Ling Jiang, BingYue Lu, ChunYan Yang, LinFang Li, Xi Liu, Long Zhang, ZhiGang Zhao and JianMin Wan


Effectively widening the gene pool of oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) by using Chinese B. rapa in a ‘virtual allopolyploid’ approach (pages 333–337)

JiaQin Mei, Ying Fu, LunWen Qian, XinFu Xu, JiaNa Li and Wei Qian


Cleistogamy of oilseed rape, a way to prevent cross-fertilization between adjacent fields (pages 338–344)

Martine Leflon, Alexandra Hüsken, Simon Kightley and Xavier Pinochet


Analyses of inheritance patterns and consistent expression of sporamin and chitinase PjChi-1 genes in Brassica napus (pages 345–351)

HongBo Liu, Muhammad S. Naeem, Dan Liu, YaNa Zhu, Xiang Guo, Peng Cui and WeiJun Zhou


Glucosinolates in the new oilseed crop meadowfoam: natural variation in Section Inflexae of Limnanthes, a new glucosinolate in L. floccosa, and QTL analysis in L. alba (pages 352–359)

Pablo Velasco, Mary B. Slabaugh, Ralph Reed, Jennifer Kling, Venkata K. Kishore, Jan F. Stevens and Steven J. Knapp


Genetic relationship between cultivated and wild hazelnuts (Corylus avellana L.) collected in northern Spain (pages 360–366)

Ana Campa, Noemí Trabanco, Elena Pérez-Vega, Mercé Rovira and Juan J. Ferreira


Self-pollination does not affect fruit set or fruit characteristics in almond (Prunus dulcis) (pages 367–371)

Pedro J. Martínez-García, Encarnación Ortega and Federico Dicenta


Genetic mapping in Lilium: mapping of major genes and quantitative trait loci for several ornamental traits and disease resistances (pages 372–382)

Arwa Shahin, Paul Arens, Adriaan W. Van Heusden, Gerard Van Der Linden, Martijn Van Kaauwen, Nadeem Khan, Henk J. Schouten, W. Eric Van De Weg, Richard G. F. Visser and Jaap M. Van Tuyl


Heterosis and combining ability for resistance to powdery mildew in adult melon plants (pages 383–387)

Kadanapuradadoddi T. Shashikumar, Mottaiyan Pitchaimuthu, Doddegowda P. Kumar and Ram D. Rawal


A single recessive gene conferring short leaves in romaine × Latin type lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) crosses, and its effect on plant morphology and resistance to lettuce drop caused by Sclerotinia minor Jagger (pages 388–393)

Ryan J. Hayes, BoMing Wu and Krishna V. Subbarao


SHORT COMMUNICATIONS


Development of a cost-effective pyrosequencing approach for SNP genotyping in barley (pages 394–397)

Cristina Silvar, Dragan Perovic, Ana M. Casas, Ernesto Igartua and Frank Ordon


Sources of resistance to Fusarium head blight within Syrian durum wheat landraces (pages 398–400)

Firas Talas, Friedrich Longin and Thomas Miedaner


A method for selection of restriction enzymes for sdCAPS marker construction (pages 401–403)

YeSol Jeong, SunYoung Lee, InHye Choi, YongPyo Lim, YoonKang Hur, Jack E. Staub and SangMin Chung


Mapping quantitative trait loci for sheath blight resistance in rice using double haploid population (pages 404–406)

Qun Xu, XiaoPing Yuan, HanYong Yu, YiPing Wang, ShengXiang Tang and XingHua Wei


Cloning and functional characterization of genes involved in fatty acid biosynthesis in the novel oilseed crop Lepidium campestre L. (pages 407–409)

Dennis Eriksson and Arnulf Merker


Production and characterization of the novel CMS line of radish (Raphanus sativus) carrying Brassica maurorum cytoplasm (pages 410–412)

SangWoo Bang, Kota Tsutsui, SuHyeun Shim and Yukio Kaneko


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Plant Breeding - 130 (4), 2011


Contents:

ORIGINAL ARTICLES


Veery wheats carry an allele of Vrn-A1 that has implications for freezing tolerance in winter wheats (pages 413–418)

Howard A. Eagles, Karen Cane and Ben Trevaskis


Resistance of ‘Roxana’ to powdery mildew and its presence in some European spring barley cultivars (pages 419–422)

Antonín Dreiseitl


Identifying genetic complexity of 6H locus in barley conferring resistance to Pyrenophora teres f. teres (pages 423–429)

Sanjiv Gupta, Chengdao Li, Robert Loughman, Mehmet Cakir, Sharon Westcott and Reg Lance


Investigation of seedling-stage salinity tolerance QTLs using backcross lines derived from Oryza sativa L. Pokkali (pages 430–437)

Rebjana Alam, M. Sazzadur Rahman , Zeba I. Seraj, Michael J. Thomson, Abdelbagi M. Ismail, Ellen Tumimbang-Raiz and Glenn B. Gregorio


Generation of marker-free, bacterial blight-resistant transgenic sterile line and hybrid rice with Xa21 (pages 438–443)

Lifen Gao, Zhihui Xia, Guanghuai Jiang, Hai Peng, Xianfeng Zhao and Wenxue Zhai


Association analysis of vegetable soybean quality traits with SSR markers (pages 444–449)

Jinfeng Hou, Chuanlin Wang, Xuejuan Hong, Jinming Zhao, Chenchen Xue, Na Guo, Junyi Gai and Han Xing


Genetic effects and heterosis of the fibre colour and quality of brown cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) (pages 450–456)

Hong-Jie Feng, Jun-Ling Sun, Jie Wang, Ying-Hua Jia, Xin-Yu Zhang, Bao-Ying Pang, Jie Sun and Xiong-Ming Du


Phenotypic characterization of sweet potato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] genotypes in relation to prediction of chemical quality constituents by NIRS equations (pages 457–463)

Vincent Lebot, André Ndiaye and Roger Malapa


Evaluation of the RPi-ber late blight resistance gene for tuber resistance in the field and laboratory (pages 464–468)

Hilary Mayton, Gilda Rauscher, Ivan Simko and William E. Fry


Production of novel alloplasmic male sterile lines in Allium cepa harbouring the cytoplasm from Allium roylei (pages 469–475)

Hao Q. Vu, Machiko Iwata, Naoki Yamauchi and Masayoshi Shigyo


Genomic structure and fertility in advanced breeding populations derived from an allotetraploid Festuca pratensis × Lolium perenne cross (pages 476–480)

Zbigniew Zwierzykowski, Elżbieta Zwierzykowska, Magdalena Taciak, Arkadiusz Kosmala, R. Neil Jones, Włodzimierz Zwierzykowski, Tomasz Książczyk and Paweł Krajewski


Identification of wild apple germplasm (Malus spp.) accessions with resistance to the postharvest decay pathogens Penicillium expansum and Colletotrichum acutatum (pages 481–486)

Wayne M. Jurick II, Wojciech J. Janisiewicz, Robert A. Saftner, Ivana Vico, Verneta L. Gaskins, Eunhee Park, Philip L. Forsline, Gennaro Fazio and William S. Conway


Evaluation of fertilization and flower abscission following over-expression of an apple NAK-type protein kinase in tomato (pages 487–491)

In-Jung Kim, Joon-Seon Yoon and Young-Koung Lee


SHORT COMMUNICATIONS


Selection of pigeonpea genotypes for tolerance to aluminium toxicity (pages 492–495)

Arbind K. Choudhary, Dharmendra Singh and Mir A. Iquebal


Two complementary dominant genes control flowering time in albus lupin (Lupinus albus L.) (pages 496–499)

Kedar Adhikari, Bevan Buirchell, Guijun Yan and Mark Sweetingham


Molecular mapping of the AOX1a and ß-AmyI genes in potato (pages 500–502)

Dominika Krusiewicz, Henryka Jakuczun, Iwona Wasilewicz-Flis, Danuta Strzelczyk-Żyta and Waldemar Marczewski


Isolation and characterization of simple sequence repeat markers for the tetraploid forage grass Dactylis glomerata (pages 503–506)

Mariko Hirata, Nana Yuyama and Hongwei Cai


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Plant Breeding - 130 (5), 2011


Contents:

REVIEW ARTICLE


Progress in the utilization of Cajanus platycarpus (Benth.) Maesen in pigeonpea improvement (pages 507–514)

Nalini Mallikarjuna, Senthilvel Senapathy, Deepak R. Jadhav, Kulbhushan Saxena, Hari C. Sharma, Hari D. Upadhyaya, Abishek Rathore and Rajeev Varshney


ORIGINAL ARTICLES


iSNAP: a small RNA-based molecular marker technique (pages 515–520)

Yijie Gui, Guanghao Yan, Shiping Bo, Zhijun Tong, Yu Wang, Bingguang Xiao, Xiuping Lu, Yongping Li, Weiren Wu and Longjiang Fan


Further characterization of the scab resistance of ‘Frontana’ spring wheat and the relationships between resistance mechanisms (pages 521–525)

Dalitso N. Yabwalo, Mohamed Mergoum and William A. Berzonsky


Characterization of quantitative trait locus for days to heading in near-isogenic lines with genetic background of Indica-type rice variety IR64 (Oryza sativa) (pages 526–532)

Daisuke Fujita, Rizza E. Santos, Leodegario A. Ebron, Yoshimichi Fukuta and Nobuya Kobayashi


Recombination frequency variation in maize as revealed by genomewide single-nucleotide polymorphisms (pages 533–539)

Mohammad Farkhari, Yanli Lu, Trushar Shah, Shihuang Zhang, Mohammad R. Naghavi, Tingzhao Rong and Yunbi Xu


Inheritance of increased seed tocopherol content in sunflower line IAST-413 (pages 540–543)

L. Del Moral, B. Pérez-Vich, J. M. Fernández-Martínez and L. Velasco


Molecular characterization and marker development of mid-oleic-acid mutant M23 for the development of high-oleic cultivars of soybean (pages 544–550)

Tomoki Hoshino, Nobuhisa Kawashita, Yutaka Takagi and Toyoaki Anai


A study on relative importance of additive, epistasis and unmapped QTL for Aluminium tolerance at seedling stage in soybean (pages 551–562)

Paul C. Korir, Bo Qi, Yufeng Wang, Tuanjie Zhao, Deyue Yu, Shouyi Chen and Junyi Gai


Genetics of aluminium tolerance in chickpea (Cicer arietinum) (pages 563–568)

Dharmendra Singh and Ranjeet S. Raje


An integrated breeding technology for accelerating generation advancement and trait introgression in cotton (pages 569–573)

XingFen Wang, YanXia Wang, GuiYin Zhang and ZhiYing Ma


The relationship between heterosis and genetic distances based on RAPD and AFLP markers in carrot (pages 574–579)

Barbara Jagosz


SHORT COMMUNICATIONS


Sequence-characterized amplified region and simple sequence repeat markers for identifying the major quantitative trait locus responsible for seedling resistance to downy mildew in Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa ssp. pekinensis) (pages 580–583)

Shuancang Yu, Fenglan Zhang, Xiuyun Zhao, Yangjun Yu and Deshuang Zhang


Identification and characterization of microsatellite markers from Musa balbisiana (pages 584–590)

Jing-yi Wang, Bing-zhi Huang, Ye-yuan Chen, Su-ping Feng and Yao-ting Wu


Development and characterization of microsatellite markers for caladiums (Caladium Vent.) (pages 591–595)

LI Gong and Zhanao Deng


Evaluation of 15 caespitose bamboo EST-SSR markers for cross-species/genera transferability and ability to identify interspecies hybrids (pages 596–600)

Wen-Juan Dong, Miao-Dan Wu, Yuan Lin, Ming-Bing Zhou and Ding-Qin Tang


ERRATUM


Erratum (page 601)


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Plant Breeding - 130 (6), 2011


Contents:

ORIGINAL ARTICLES


Identification and molecular mapping of PmHNK54: a novel powdery mildew resistance gene in common wheat (pages 603–607)

Weigang Xu, Chunxin Li, Lin Hu, Huiwei Wang, Haibin Dong, Jianzhou Zhang and Xiangcun Zan


Marker-assisted improvement of a stable restorer line, KMR-3R and its derived hybrid KRH2 for bacterial blight resistance and grain quality (pages 608–616)

Yadla Hari, Kommoju Srinivasarao, Basvaraj C. Viraktamath, Arremsetty S. Hariprasad, Gouri S. Laha, Mohammed I. Ahmed, Podishetty Natarajkumar, Mugalodi S. Ramesha, Chirravuri N. Neeraja, Sena M. Balachandran, Nallathigal S. Rani, Pippalla Balaji Suresh, Kalidindi Sujatha, Manish Pandey, Gajjala Ashok Reddy, Maganti S. Madhav and Raman M. Sundaram


Correlations and QTL detection in maize family per se and testcross progenies for plant height and ear height (pages 617–624)

Yan Zhang, Yongxiang Li, Yang Wang, Bo Peng, Cheng Liu, Zhizhai Liu, Weiwei Tan, Di Wang, Yunsu Shi, Baocheng Sun, Yanchun Song, Tianyu Wang and Yu Li


QTL mapping of coleorhiza length in maize (Zea mays L.) under two germination environmental conditions (pages 625–632)

Xuwen Jiang, Baohua Tian, Weimin Zhang, Guoying Wang and Jianhua Wang


Heritability and gene effect estimates for components of partial resistance to grey leaf spot of maize by generation mean analysis (pages 633–639)

Herman J. F. Lyimo, Richard C. Pratt and Reuben S. O. W. Mnyuku


Quantitative trait loci mapping for two seed yield component traits in an oilseed rape (Brassica napus) cross (pages 640–646)

Wei Chen, Yongshan Zhang, Jinbo Yao, Chaozhi Ma, Jinxing Tu and Fu Tingdong


Heritability and correlations among food-grade traits in soybean (pages 647–652)

Luciano M. Jaureguy, Pengyin Chen and Andrew M. Scaboo


Fine mapping and identification of the soybean RSC4 resistance candidate gene to soybean mosaic virus (pages 653–659)

Dagang Wang, Ying Ma, Ning Liu, Zhonglu Yang, Guijie Zheng and Haijian Zhi


Identification of anthracnose resistance in yellow lupin (Lupinus luteus L.) and its incorporation into breeding lines (pages 660–664)

Kedar N. Adhikari, Geoff Thomas, Bevan J. Buirchell and Mark W. Sweetingham


Identification of QTL for agronomic traits and resistance to white mold in wild and landrace germplasm of common bean (pages 665–672)

Wezi Mkwaila, Karolyn A. Terpstra, Marcio Ender and James D. Kelly


Improving cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) plant resistance to reniform nematodes by pyramiding Ren1 and Ren2 (pages 673–678)

David D. Fang and Salliana R. Stetina


Genetic linkage map construction for kenaf using SRAP, ISSR and RAPD markers (pages 679–687)

Mei-xia Chen, Cheng-lin Wei, Jian-min Qi, Xing-bo Chen, Jian-guang Su, Ai-Qing Li, Ai-fen Tao and Wei-ren Wu


Genetic variability of root peel thickness and its influence in extractable starch from cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) roots (pages 688–693)

Juan C. Pérez, Jorge I. Lenis, Fernando Calle, Nelson Morante, Teresa Sánchez, Daniel Debouck and Hernan Ceballos


Seed and forage yield of advanced generation synthetics of berseem clover derived from partly inbred parents under different harvesting regimes (pages 694–700)

Anna Iannucci and Paolo Annicchiarico


Improved polycross breeding of tall fescue through marker-based parental selection (pages 701–707)

Fatemeh Amini, Aghafakhr Mirlohi, Mohamad M. Majidi, Samira ShojaieFar and Roland Kölliker


Identification of silverleaf whitefly resistance in pepper (pages 708–714)

Syarifin Firdaus, Adriaan Van Heusden, Asep Harpenas, Ence D. J. Supena, Richard G. F. Visser and Ben Vosman


SHORT COMMUNICATION


Oryza rufipogon, a valuable source for resistance to bacterial blight of rice (pages 715–718)

Tilathoo Ram, Gouri S. Laha, Ram Deen, Joy M. Ramos, Casiana M. VeraCruz and Darshan S. Brar


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