Homozygosity of Parental Palms Used in Single Seed Descent Programmes

Recurrent cycles of inbreeding (self or sib crosses) have been commonly used in conventional breeding to produce highly homozygous lines in a range of  crop species. Thirty-two Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers were involved in assessing the homozygosity of 23 oil palm Single Seed Descent (SSD) programmes which involved 509 parents. From the complete genotype […]