Utilization of KASP Technology for Wheat Improvement
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Cell Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 477
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wheat is one of the world’s most important staple food crops, and is a leading source of approximately 20% of calorie and protein requirements for humans. Demand for wheat is projected to increase by 60% over coming decades. A large number of studies are currently being undertaken for wheat improvement, involving genotyping and phenotyping experiments. There is a wide variety of molecular markers available that are being used in wheat genetic studies, and each has its own limitations. With the fast-paced development in next-generation sequencing, a huge amount of whole-genome sequencing data and with it single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based markers have become available and commonplace in wheat genotyping and marker‐assisted selection. More recently, the Kompetitive allele‐specific PCR (KASP™) system has been demonstrated to be a more accurate, flexible, effective, and cost‐effective system for high-throughput genotyping in wheat. This Special issue on the “Utilization of KASP Technology for Wheat Improvement” covers papers that have developed KASP assays for various biotic and abiotic stresses; agronomic, physiological and quality traits for wheat improvement; and for detecting introgressions and conducting genetic diversity analysis.
Dr. Surbhi Grewal
Guest Editor
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