Coffee provides one of the most widely drunk beverages in the world, and is a very important sour... more Coffee provides one of the most widely drunk beverages in the world, and is a very important source of foreign exchange income for many countries. In kenya, coffee production has a significant contribution to Kenya‟s economy for decades, and a high proportion of the coffee produced is considered the best quality coffee in the world. In coffee, morphological parameters are very often used to discriminate the varieties and hybrids. However, this exercise has some challenges that include the perennial nature of the plant that requires at least 5-7 years for attaining reproductive maturity for evaluation of both vegetative and reproductive characters. Therefore it is critical to identify suitable markers which can identify cultivars/hybrids at early stage of plant growth and at the same time discriminate between different coffee genotypes to fasclitate selection process and thereby speed up the coffee breeding program.Two molecular marker systems, RAPD (Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA)...
Coffee provides one of the most widely drunk beverages in the world, and is a very important sour... more Coffee provides one of the most widely drunk beverages in the world, and is a very important source of foreign exchange income for many countries. In kenya, coffee production has a significant contribution to Kenya‟s economy for decades, and a high proportion of the coffee produced is considered the best quality coffee in the world. In coffee, morphological parameters are very often used to discriminate the varieties and hybrids. However, this exercise has some challenges that include the perennial nature of the plant that requires at least 5-7 years for attaining reproductive maturity for evaluation of both vegetative and reproductive characters. Therefore it is critical to identify suitable markers which can identify cultivars/hybrids at early stage of plant growth and at the same time discriminate between different coffee genotypes to fasclitate selection process and thereby speed up the coffee breeding program.Two molecular marker systems, RAPD (Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA)...
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