Review Article
Advances in Maize Genomics and Their Value for Enhancing Genetic Gains from Breeding
Table 1
Examples of MAS applications in maize improvement.
| Traits | Molecular markers | Note | References |
| Grain yield, ear number, plant height | RFLP | Increase of hybrid yield by enhancing both parents with introgression of favorable alleles | [239, 254] |
| Grain yielding, percent stalk lodging | RFLP | Early generation test of inbreeding process | [255] |
| Grain yield, earliness | RFLP | Foreground selection for three loci of earliness and grain yield and background selection | [256] |
| Grain yield | SSR | Four yield QTL were selected as target introgressions in the developmentof BC3 families | [257] |
| Seeding emergency | RFLP | Seedling emergence of three elite commercial sweet corn inbreds has been improved by introgression of three alleles with marker-assisted backcross | [258] |
| Drought tolerance | RFLP, SSR | Five favorable alleles related to drought tolerance were successfully introgressed into the recurrent parent | [240] |
| Fertility restorer gene | SSR | Selection of Rf3 gene | [259] |
| Southwestern corn borer | RFLP | A total of five loci traced during backcross | [260] |
| Stalk strength, second-generation European corn borer | RFLP | Comparison of effectiveness between phenotypic selection and MAS on stalk strength and second-generation European corn borer resistance | [261] |
| Quality protein maize (QPM) | SSR | Both foreground selection for the o2 gene and background selection for restoration of recurrent genome | [262] |
| Quality protein maize (QPM) | SSR | o2 gene was introgressed into herbicide resistant elite maize inbred lines using three SSR markers | [263] |
| Drought tolerance | RFLP | Inbred line CML247 was improved for drought tolerance through four cycles of MABC | [241] |
|
|