Using Marker Assisted Selection in Wheat Breeding

Wheat is a basic nutrition and is the most widely grown crop in the world and turkey. since further expansion of cultivated area is not possible, the most efficient way of supplying necessary nutrition for increasing population is to increase yield per area. increases in wheat yield can be achieved through improvement of varieties which are resistant to disease and insect pests, which have stability across different environments. selections toward specific purposes during long breeding programs and use of common parents in crosses made the genetic base of cultivated wheat narrow and made it difficult to develop new varieties through classical plant breeding. marker assisted selection (mas) is a alternative and helpful method to solve problems of classical plant breeding. marker assisted selection facilitates transfer of traits are agronomically important and controlled by one or more gene/locus. this technique is a rapid, efficient, reliable and economical selection method and is complement of classical breeding.