Plant breeding publications

Atoms4Food: Growing Food Security

Plant Breeding and Genetics Newsletter, No. 52, January 2024

Plant Breeding and Genetics Newsletter, No. 52, January 2024

Efficient Screening Techniques to Identify Mutants with TR4 Resistance in Banana

The book consists of 11 chapters for mutation breeding and Fusarium wilt resistance screening in banana.

Plant Breeding and Genetics Newsletter, No. 50, January 2023

Plant Breeding and Genetics Newsletter, No. 50, January 2023

Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratories Activities Report 2021

Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratories Activities Report 2021

Library Preparation for Medium-to High-Throughput DNA Sequencing on the Illumina Sequencing Platform. A Laboratory Protocol

This protocol achieves parallel, cost-effective preparation of Illumina sequencing libraries using only standard laboratory equipment. Costs are less than $10 per sample, and the intended scale is dozens to hundreds of samples. End-products are sequencing libraries, where each library is individually indexed with a molecular barcode. These libraries can be pooled for sequencing and subsequently demultiplexed in-silico. We provide 24 forward and 36 reverse primer sequences with a combinatorial barcoding capacity for up to 864 samples.

A Software Workflow for Automated Initial Analysis of High-throughput DNA Sequencing Project. A Laboratory Protocol

This protocol describes the use of a flexible Snakemake software workflow for reproducible analysis of genome re-sequencing experiments. It confirms sample relationships from the raw sequencing reads with alignment-free methods (kwip and mash) and performs alignment, variant calling, and variant annotation against one or several reference genomes; read alignments with bwa and/or NextGenMap, variant calling with freebayes and/or bcftools mpileup. If a genome annotation is available, variants are annotated with snpEff.

Plant Breeding and Genetics Newsletter, No. 49, June 2022

Plant Breeding and Genetics Newsletter, No. 49, JUne 2022

Scientific Papers 2022

• BOHRA, A., KILIAN, B., SIVASANKAR, S., CACCAMO, M., MBA, C., MCCOUCH, S.R., VARSHNEY, R.K. (2021) Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops. Trends in Biotechnology Oct 8; S0167-7799(21)00197-9.




• RAHMAN, M.H., SULTANA, R., SARKAR, M.M.A., ISLAM, S., AZAD, M.A.K., SIVASANKAR, S. (2021) Comparative Profitability and Impact of BINA Developed Aman Mutant Rice Binadhan-7 with Non-Mutant Variety in Bangladesh. Asian Research Journal of Agriculture 14(3): 11-25.

Plant Breeding and Genetics Newsletter, No. 48, January 2022

Plant Breeding and Genetics Newsletter, No. 48, January 2022

In Action: Nuclear applications in agriculture. On-the-ground success Part V

A Low-Cost Genotyping Protocol and Kit for Marker-Assisted Selection of Orange Lemma (rob1.a), a Feed Quality Trait in Barley (Hordeum Vulgare L.)

A Low-Cost Genotyping Protocol and Kit for Marker-Assisted Selection of Orange Lemma (rob1.a), a Feed Quality Trait in Barley (Hordeum Vulgare L.).

Plant Breeding and Genetics Newsletter, No. 47, July 2021

Plant Breeding and Genetics Newsletter, No. 47, July 2021

Development of Tolerant Crop Cultivars for Abiotic Stresses to Increase Food Security

Salt stress is the second most widespread soil problem after drought in arable crop production worldwide. Excess salt in soil adversely affects plant growth, development, and productivity when osmotic stress reduces water uptake by roots. This publication provides standard operating procedures for managing crop phenotyping in controlled/semi-controlled environments and natural field conditions.

Plant Breeding and Genetics Newsletter, No. 46, January 2021

Plant Breeding and Genetics Newsletter, No. 46, January 2021

Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratories Activities Report 2020

Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratories Activities Report 2020

Plant Breeding and Genetics Newsletter, No. 45, July 2020

Plant Breeding and Genetics Newsletter, No. 45, July 2020

Plant Breeding and Genetics Scientific Papers 2020

Plant Breeding and Genetics Scientific Papers 2020

Plant Breeding and Genetics Newsletter, No. 44, January 2020

Plant Breeding and Genetics Newsletter, No. 44, January 2020

Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratories Activities Report 2019

Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratories Activities Report 2019