In crop improvement, marker-assisted selection (MAS) has become a compelling technique with several advantages over conventional breeding techniques. At an early period of plant growth, MAS aids breeders to effectually choose wanted genotypes by employing molecular markers linked with target traits. To introduce anticipated features including disease resistance, abiotic stress tolerance, and increased yield potential, this technique has been efficiently utilized in an array of crop plants. Marker assisted selection hurries up breeding and enhances selection competence by making it calmer to identify genotypes carrying specific genes or QTLs. Moreover, MAS can get everywhere difficulties in phenotypic screening, particularly for features that are articulated late in plant growth or wedged by environmental variables. Breeding efforts that incorporate MAS have formed superior crop varieties with enhanced agronomic characteristics and resistance to biotic and tolerant against abiotic stressors. The incorporation of genomics and bioinformatics with ongoing developments in genotyping technology has the potential to further upsurge the efficiency and application of MAS in crop breeding ingenuities.
Abiotic stress tolerance, Bioinformatics, Crop breeding, Disease resistance, Genomics, Genotyping technologies, Marker assisted selection, Molecular markers, Quantitative trait loci (QTLs)
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