TY  - SER
AU  - Mahmoud,Badeaa A.
AU  - Omar,Samar A.
AU  - Shaker,ShA.
AU  - Darwesh,E.I.
TI  -  Markers assisted selection for salt tolerance among some cotton (Gossypium Barbadense L.) genotypes
KW  - Cotton
KW  - Genetics
KW  - Varieties
N1  - Includes references
N2  - Salinity is one of the most limiting factors in cotton production with frequent occurrence in arid and semiarid regions. Due to continuous use of low quality irrigation water for agriculture purpose, about 5.7x106 ha of arable land had been affected by salinity (Mujtaba et al., 2003). It was evident that salt toler-ance is a complex trait which is greatly affected by the environmental factors (Abdel-Tawab et al., 1997). Genetic ap-proach appears more feasible and econom-ical to deal with salinity. As well as, it is the way to produce crop cultivars suitable for the areas affected by salinity. Analysis of genetic diversity is the main pre-requisite to improve any crop. Most of genetic diversity analysis studies in Egyp-tian cotton varieties have been carried out on the basis of morphological characteris-tics. Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) was used to analyze genetic relationships and genetic diversity (Wil-liams et al., 1990; Multani and Lyon, 1995). Technical simplicity and speed of RAPD methodology is a principal ad-vantage (Gepts, 1993). RAPD analysis has been used for Gossypium (Abdel Tawab et al., 2001; Rana and Bhat, 2002). Markers-assisted selection (MAS) would enable the plant breeders to grasp the promising genotypes having the desired trait with more confidence in their merits, as selection will be based on genetic rather than phe-notypic basis
UR  - http://nile.enal.sci.eg/EALE/2018/EJGC/4718/2/311.pdf
ER  -