Molecular markers and marker assisted selection in plants Unit 1 Biochemical markers and DNA level markers ,types,

properties ,advantages and disadvantages Unit2 Molecular plant breeding: Introduction - molecular markers as new efficient tools in breeding. Unit3 Molecular markers for genome mapping Principles of genetic linkage, concept of geneticdistance, development and choice of mapping populations, linkage map construction relational,integrated and comparative maps. Unit4: Principles and methods of QTL mapping, fine mapping of QTL. Unit5 Marker assisted breeding Gene tagging, marker aided selection foreground and backgroundselection, concept of graphical genotypes, elimination of linkage drags.Cloning plant genes: Comparative genomics and cloning, positional cloning