Vol. 10, Issue 11 (2021)

Author(s):
Veera Ranjani Rajagopalan, Rohit Kambale, Bharathi Ayyenar, Williams Mohanavel and Dr. Raveendran Muthurajan

Abstract:
Genetic diversity is one of the most basic prerequisites in any crop improvement programme. It acts as a reservoir for identifying superior alleles influencing key agronomic and qualitative traits through allele mining. The aus rice variety group is a prospective source for the development of novel stress-tolerant rice cultivars. The present study was aimed to characterize the genetic variation present in the aus type 3K rice germplasm subset, further it can be utilized to identify the genes related to stress tolerant by allele mining. Genetic diversity of this aus type 3K rice genome panel subset indicates the presence of admixture in the population. Therefore, it is necessary to generate a good association mapping panel for the stress tolerant crop improvement in rice.