Onion (Allium cepa L.) is a crop of both culinary and economic importance worldwide, and advancing breeding programmes is increasingly reliant on a thorough understanding of its genetic diversity.

Plant breeding aims at the genetic enhancement of crops through the application of principles of Mendelian Genetics and modern tools and techniques of cell and molecular biology. Many breeding ...

This manual on selected molecular marker techniques was prepared using the handouts and other materials distributed to participants of the 1st FAO/IAEA Interregional Training Course on "Mutant ...