Molecular Markers in Vigna Improvement: Understanding and Using Gene Pools
Molecular Markers in Vigna Improvement: Understanding and Using Gene Pools
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Vigna 改良中的分子标记:理解和使用基因库
DOI:
10.1007/3-540-26538-4_10
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发表时间:
2004
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影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
N. Tomooka
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作者:
A. Kaga;D. Vaughan;N. Tomooka
The genus Vigna is a large genus with about 90 species distributed worldwide in warm and tropical regions. The genus includes 13 cultigens (Table1), of these cowpea, mungbean and azuki bean are the most important (Table2). Perhaps due to Vigna cultigens being mainly crops in the developing world, molecular marker and genomic studies have lagged behind those of other major crops. For example, genome designations are known for species in many crop genera, such as Glycine, but these have not been established for Vigna species. There has recently been considerable progress in using molecular markers to understand Vigna genetic resources and in developing genome maps and associating molecular markers to agronomically important traits in the Vigna cultigens. However, the actual use of molecular markers in Vigna breeding at the end of 2002 is still being planned. In this chapter we review recent progress in the use of molecular markers in understanding Vigna genetic resources, Vigna linkage map development, particularly in relation to the location of genes for agronomic traits, and transformation systems.