Use of Molecular Markers to Improve the Agro-Industrial Productivity in the North West of Argentina

PERERA MF, RACEDO J, CASTAGNARO AP.

Molecular Biology: Open Access

OMICS

Año: 2016

Genetic improvement of crop plants through conventionalbreeding has been the cornerstone to improve global agriculturalproduction. Nowadays, different molecular biology techniques havebecome available to supplement and assist conventional breeding,among them the utilization of molecular markers. The generation ofmolecular, or DNA, markers are based on two basic molecular biologymethods in order to be able to detect polymorphism: Southern blotting,a nucleic acid hybridization technique [1], and the amplification in vitroof specific DNA segments by the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)technique [2]. By using these two methods and several variations of thebasic technologies, many different kind of molecular markers have beendeveloped during the last decades.