Marker-assisted selection in public breeding programs: The wheat experience

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Received 23 July 2003. *Corresponding author (jdubcovsky@ucdavis.edu). I are usually beyond the resources of public breeding programs and, therefore, are not currently used in most cultivated plants. Fortunately, biotechnology has provided additional tools that do not require the use of transgenic crops to revolutionize plant breeding. Progress in molecular genet- ics has resulted in the development of DNA tags, which can be used in marker-assisted selection (MAS) strate- gies for cultivar development (Paterson et al., 1991). These Abbreviations: BAC, bacterial artificial chromosome; MAS, marker- assisted selection; SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism.