Marker-assisted selection in cereals: Platforms, strategies and examples

Abstract

Cereals are the world's most important sources of food, both for direct human consumption and indirectly, as inputs to livestock production. Millions of farmers and consumers in both the developed and the developing world depend on cereals as their preferred staple food. The future of cereal production, affects not only the global food security, but also the livelihoods of several million small farmers worldwide.