TY  - CHAP
AV  - restricted
A1  - Vadez, V
A1  - Deshpande, S P
A1  - Kholova, J
A1  - Ramu, P
A1  - Hash, C T
TI  - Molecular Breeding for Stay-Green: Progress and Challenges in Sorghum
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118728482.ch8
M1  - 2
SN  - 9781118728482
PB  - John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
ED  - Varshney, R K
ED  - Tuberosa, R
N2  - This chapter focuses on the usage of stay-green as a breeding target under water-limited conditions. It reviews recent progress in different areas of stay-green research, with a particular focus on sorghum, where this trait has been most studied. Given the potential benefit of stay-green, genotypes displaying this trait have been used to identify the genomic regions responsible for this phenotype. Several quantitative trait loci (QTLs) have been identified, using different breeding populations and stay-green QTL donors, and different types of drought stress. The chapter reviews the experimental conditions in which phenotyping for stay-green has taken place and the different ways of assessing this phenotype, either from leaf senescence curves or leaf greenness assessments. It summarizes current work being done at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), in Andhra Pradesh, India to introgress several known QTLs for staygreen into various agronomically elite genetic backgrounds.
KW  - molecular breeding;
    quantitative trait loci (QTLs);
    sorghum;
    stay-green
Y1  - 2013///
SP  - 125
T2  - Translational Genomics for Crop Breeding: Abiotic Stress, Yield and Quality
ID  - icrisat7377
EP  - 141
ER  -