December 16, 2005
J.-L. Jannink and S. W. Gardner of
Iowa State University
present their work on “Expanding the Pool of PCR-Based
Markers for Oat.” Their research appears in the latest issue
of Crop Science.
There are only a few polymerase chain reaction (PCR)–based
markers for oat, and the crop would benefit from such markers,
as PCR is a less expensive alternative to current methods used
to analyze, classify, and breed oat (such as restriction
fragment length polymorphisms, or RFLP).
In their research, Jannink and
Gardner design 32 markers based on oat sequence data available.
Subscribers to Crop Science can
access the complete article, as well as the sequences of the
markers, at
http://crop.scijournals.org/cgi/reprint/45/6/2383.
Other readers may see the
abstract at
http://crop.scijournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/45/6/2383.
Source:
CropBiotech Update |