Sentences with phrase «screen molecular markers»
With multiyear field studies, Xue identified plant traits related to drought tolerance, which can be used by breeders to develop drought - tolerant wheat cultivars and geneticists to screen molecular markers and speed the breeding process.
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On the scientific agenda are identifying molecular markers for resistance, which would simplify testing; accelerating the development of alternative drugs; and studying the effectiveness of mass screening and treatment to eliminate malaria in the areas where resistance occurs.
The identification of quantitative trait loci (QTL) for heat tolerance in the most promising donors and tagging these with molecular markers that could be used in selecting for the trait (s) could effectively offset the difficulty of screening cultivars in the field due to the unpredictability of heat stress occurrence during flowering.