Principles of Plant Breeding (2+1)

Germplasm Resources

Characterization of Germplasm Resources

1. Molecular markers can aid maintenance and characterizations of bio diversity in a variety of ways. Due to limitation of space, time and effort, it may not be possible to maintained all the germplasm collections.
2. Molecular markers can be used for identification and elimination of duplicate accessions entered in different names and thus reduce the number of accession to be actually reserved. Simultaneously, employing markers link to traits of agricultural importance, useful accession in the germplasm reserve can be identified, evaluated for trait diversity and efficiently utilized in crop breeding.
3. Molecular markers have successfully been used for identification of duplicates and determination of the extent of allelic diversity both at inter and intra varietals or land race levels.