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Marker Assisted Selection (MAS)
Course
About
the course.
A Marker Assisted
Selection (MAS) course was held between 3-9 of February 2003 at the NARO
Biotechnology Center at Kawanda, Uganda.
There were 15 course participants (5 women and 10 men)
from Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and S. Africa.
Although the primary crop of interest was beans, NARO scientists working on
bananas and horticulture participated.
Objectives
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Purpose
and outputs.
The course provided an opportunity to test markers that
had been developed for ALS resistance and to evaluate their potential for
marker assisted selection breeding under different settings. Markers developed
elsewhere were also evaluated and an inventory was made of the potential of
MAS in bean breeding in Africa. Discussion were held on traits that are likely
to benefit from MAS, genotypes to use in breeding for which markers are
available and when and where markers have a comparative advantage in breeding.
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