Advances in Molecular Breeding of Vegetable Crops

Abstract

Molecular vegetable breeding has been progressed intensively in recent years. Huge advances have been made in germplasm evaluation, gene isolation, plant transformation, gene editing and molecular-marker-assisted breeding. The goal of this Special Issue is to highlight, through selected works, frontier research from basic to applied molecular vegetable breeding. The selected papers published in Special Issue of Horticulturae exhibit a diversity in molecular vegetable breeding. The papers listed in this editorial are especially noteworthy.

Deciphering genetic diversity phylogeny and assembly of Allium species through micro satellite markers on nuclear DNA

“…Several infections contribute to the low productivity of cultivated alliums in India, causing the average yield to reduce significantly [ 16 ]. Wild alliums are high in flavonoids and volatile organic compounds, which aid in growth and development, attract insect pollinators, prevent plant illnesses, and improve weed control [ 17 ]. The Indian species of Allium was found to be a source of resistance to the diseases caused by the garlic mosaic virus, stemphyllium blight, and purple blotch [ 14 ].…”

“…× wakegi , RAPD and PCR-RFLP studies were performed at Fukuoka, Japan [ 23 ], SNP-markers developed at Wageningen, The Netherlands [ 26 ], The establishment of intron length polymorphic (ILP) markers in onions and the cross-species transferability of these markers in wild close relatives and garlic was revealed in India [ 20 ] and simple sequence repeats (SSRs) were used to study the diversity among bunching onion ( Allium fistulosum ) in Japan [ 27 ], Allium mongolicum in china [ 28 ], garlic in India [ 29 ] and onion in India [ 21 , 30 ]. Among several markers, the SSR markers are high polymorphism, and co-dominant genetic markers, and were widely used in studies of genetic diversity studies [ 17 ]. Since, SSR markers exhibit considerable transferability and reproducibility of results, SSR markers emerged as powerful tool in plant genetics [ 31 ].…”