Saturday, November 01, 2014

Breeding for Nutrient Efficiency: A Model for the Future

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K.K.Vinod Having identified a plethora of putative QTLs that contribute to nutrient use efficiency, the logical next step is to design ap...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

The Need for Nutrient Efficient Crop Varieties

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K.K.Vinod Since the birth of genetics as a science almost one and a half century ago with Gregor Mendel’s classical pea hybridization exp...
Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Some interesting rice facts

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K.K.Vinod Rice is a semiaquatic annual grass   belonging to the genus   Oryza   and has two cultivated and 22 wild species. The cul...
Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Nitrogenomics: Is the term worth science?

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K.K.Vinod Anyone searching the internet for the term 'nitrogenomics', chances are that you will be taken to a page describing, ...
Monday, July 08, 2013

Behavior of wheat awn

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K.K.Vinod Recently, an interesting discussion was active in GrainGenes mailgroup, describing about an unusual behavior of wheat awn aski...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

A tribute to Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (1887-1943)

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K.K.Vinod I thought my next post should be a tribute to Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov. Today (26 Jan 2013) marks the 70th death  anniversary ...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Gene transformation and chromosomal translocation – A plant breeder’s vista

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K.K.Vinod,  Neway Mengistu, Nicholas Adam Crowley and Jeffery Ryan Sullivan (This was the subject of a threaded discussion at University ...
Monday, December 12, 2011

My Professor's Dilemma

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K.K.Vinod and M. Maheswaran Yesterday my Professor, Dr M Maheswaran wrote me after reading the book “Emperor of All Maladies- A Biograp...
Saturday, December 03, 2011

A tribute to Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi

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K.K.Vinod Scientists and students of genetics studying linkage and recombination are familiar with Kosambi’s mapping function. Cha...
Friday, July 03, 2009

Marker Assisted Selection

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K K Vinod Primary objective of any plant breeding programme is selection of the best genotype from an array of breeding lines (genotype...
Sunday, March 02, 2008

Basic Concepts of Selection in Plant Breeding

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K.K.Vinod Generally breeders in two ways can change variability in their working population. Firstly by allowing individuals to produce n...
Thursday, January 10, 2008

Crop improvement in Para rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis)

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K.K.Vinod Para rubber tree ( Hevea brasiliensis ) belong to Euphorbiaceae. It is the major source of natural rubber in the world. The g...