Application of Molecular Marker Assisted Selection in Gene Pyramiding and Selection of New Cultivars

The feasibility of molecule markers' application in gene pyramiding has been proved, and obvious progresses in crop breeding have been made till now. Furthermore, different QTLs or molecular markers linked tightly to yield, quality or resistance may be used for marker assisted selection. MAS will be applied widely in crop breeding due to the development of more gene-based markers and efficient quantitative trait locus (QTL) as well as lower cost marking systems.