Dottorato di ricerca in Biotecnologie vegetaliRecognizing the enormous potential of DNA markers in plant breeding, many agricultural research centers and plant breeding institutes have adopted the capacity for marker development and marker-assisted selection (MAS). DNA markers have enormous potential to improve the efficiency and precision of conventional plant breeding via marker-assisted selection. Progress has been made in mapping and tagging many agriculturally important genes with molecular markers which forms the foundation for MAS in crop plants. Molecular markers have several advantages over the traditional phenotypic markers that were previously available to plant breeders. They offer great scope for improving the efficien...