January 2012

Current progress of biosafe selectable markers in plant transformation

  Plant transformation plays a crucial role in modern plant breeding system, leading to the improvement of agronomical traits and fundamental studies of plant science. To develop an efficient and reliable transformation approach, selectable marker is the prerequisite and extremely useful in enabling successful transformation. A number of environmental safe and user-friendly selectable marker genes have been...

Author(s): Zhengyi Wei, Xingzhi Wang and Shaochen Xing,

January 2011

Genotypic and phenotypic interrelationships among yield and yield components in Egyptian bread wheat genotypes

  Two field experiments were conducted in 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 growing seasons at the experimental farm of the Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. Ten Egyptian bread wheat genotypes were planted in a randomized complete block design with three replications and evaluated for eight characters. The aim was to study the phenotypic and genotypic correlations and genotypic path analysis for...

Author(s): Ashraf A. Abd El- Mohsen, Samir R. Abo Hegazy and Moemen H. Taha