Background:
The traditional breeding takes longer time to develop a new improved variety as complex quantitative traits are very difficult to select due to low heritability. Genotyping by sequencing (GBS) and high-density array-based SNP detection are the two major high-multiplexing SNP genotyping platforms. Although GBS is claimed to be effective there is problem of commonly genotyped SNPs across individuals of a population.
Technology Details:
By using the new ‘rice chip’ the time taken to breeders will be halved and can be used for rapidly genotyping several common SNPs across samples with relatively easy data analysis.