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Table of Contents

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Reinvigorating plant breeding to meet the challenges of food production in the 21st century

• Marker assisted selection: a paradigm shift in Basmati breeding

• Increasing efficiency of plant breeding and making it more attractive

• Combining QTL mapping and transcriptome profiling for an insight into genes for grain number in rice

• Identification, molecular mapping and marker-assisted introgression of novel bacterial blight resistance genes from wild relatives of Oryza

• Phylogenetic relationships among various groups of rice Oryza sativa L. as revealed by microsatellite and transposable element-based marker analysis

• Marker assisted selection and breeding for leaf rust resistance in coffee (Coffea arabica L.) – some recent leads

• Importance of teaching concepts of population genetics in effective understanding of plant breeding

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Implementation of protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act, 2001