Marker‐Assisted Selection in Plant Breeding: From Publications to Practice

The volume of publications on the development and to a lesser extent the application of molecular markers in plant breeding has increased dramatically during the last decade. However, most of the publications result from investments from donors with a strategic science quality or biotech advocacy mandate leading to insufficient emphasis on applied value in plant breeding. Converting promising publications into practical applications requires the resolution of many logistical and genetical constraints that are rarely addressed in journal publications. This results in a high proportion of published markers failing at one or more of the translation steps from research arena to application domain. The rate of…

• US
  United States Agency for International Development
• BA
  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• RF
  Rockefeller Foundation