Luis Miguel Vázquez-García

Marker Assisted Characterization in Tigridia pavonia (L.f) DC

Conventional plant breeding programs largely depend on phenotypic selection, breeders’ experience, and knowledge of plant genetics for traits of agronomic importance. A large amount of biological data is available from genetic studies of a crop of interest related to important target traits in crop breeding, which may in turn directly assist genotypic selection (Xu & Crouch, 2008). However, conventional breeding is time consuming and often testing procedures may be complex, unreliable or expensive due to the nature of the target traits (e.g. abiotic stresses) or the target environment (Choudhary et al., 2008).