Elena Maestri

TL;DR: This article describes a network experiment involving several European laboratories, in which the reproducibility of three popular molecular marker techniques was examined: random-amplified fragment length polymorphism (RAPD), amplified fragment length SNP (AFLP) and sequence-tagged microsatellites (SSR).

TL;DR: The mapped SSRs provide a framework for rapidly assigning chromosomal designations and polarity in future mapping programs in barley and a convenient alternative to RFLP for aligning information derived from different populations.

TL;DR: The review discusses the advancement of knowledge obtained through genetic analysis and molecular biology, together with the use of transgenic approaches and transcriptomics, and the most important genes which have been correlated to hyperaccumulation and tolerance in plant species.

TL;DR: Significance of heat stress response and expression of heat shock proteins (HSPs) in thermotolerance of cereal yield and quality is discussed and major avenues for increasing thermot tolerance in cereals via conventional breeding or genetic modification are outlined.

TL;DR: In this article, the extent of copper and zinc contamination of soils subjected to different levels of fertilisation with liquid manure and the concentrations in the edible tissues of three crops (maize, sugar beet and lucerne) grown on the same soils were evaluated.