The GCP Molecular Marker Toolkit

Acknowledgements  

The MM Toolkit is an SP5-funded project led by GCP Consultant Veerle Van Damme. Project collaborators: Carmen de Vicente and Humberto Gomez, GCP.

With GCP’s aim being to develop a toolkit made by and for breeders, several crop experts, including breeders, across the spectrum of geographical regions were contacted throughout the course of this project. As such, we hope you will find the information herein to be as complete and accurate as possible.

We are indebted to numerous people for their contributions to the project. Our deep gratitude is expressed to all crop experts who, without any self-interest, collaborated by revising the preliminary lists of markers; correcting, completing or updating the existing information; sending relevant literature; critically reading the crop summaries; helping us to establish contact with other researchers and research institutes; or providing input towards the toolkit structure itself. Without the kind assistance of these collaborators, creation of the GCP MM Toolkit would not have been possible.

Special thanks also go to Nicola Pecchioni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) and Susanne Dreisigacker (CIMMYT, Mexico) who provided substantial amounts of detailed information on molecular markers used in barley and wheat breeding programmes respectively. We are also grateful to Theresa Fulton of IGD–Cornell University who provided helpful input on the structure and general contents of the toolkit, and also to Walter De Jong (Cornell University, USA) and Christiane Gebhardt (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany) for their strong collaboration with the potato marker list. Our thanks also to Harsh Raman (Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Australia) for his strong support in the development of the barley marker list.

We also duly acknowledge the following collaborators for their input (presented in alphabetical order of surname): 

Shahal Abbo (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Nourollah Ahmadi (Agropolis–CIRAD)
Karen Amaya (Bioversity International)
Meike Andersson (Ecoagriculture Partners, Colombia)
Genevieve Mae Aquino (IRRI)
Elizabeth Arnaud (Bioversity International)
Rupakula Aruna (ICRISAT)
Robert Asiedu (IITA)
Gary Atlin (CIMMYT)
Carmen Avila (Alameda del Obispo Centre–Instituto de Investigación y Formación Agraria y Pesquera de Andalucía, Spain)
Raman Babu (CIMMYT)
Frédéric  Bakry (Agropolis–CIRAD)
Amalia Barone (Universita' degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
Luc Baudouin (Agropolis–CIRAD)
Michael Baum (ICARDA)
Jorge Rojas Beltran (PROINPA, Bolivia)
Jorge Luis Benavides Ranilla (Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria, Peru)
Rex Bernardo (University of Minnesota, USA)
David Bertioli (EMBRAPA, Brazil)
Venkatesh Bhat (National Research Center for Sorghum, India)
Matthew Blair (CIAT)
Tom Blake (Montana State University, USA)
Martin Bohn (University of Illinois, USA)
Merideth Bonierbale (CIP)
Ousmane Boukar (IITA)
Amanda Box (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Graham Brookes (PG Economics Limited, UK)
Gina Brown-Guedira (USDA–ARS, USA)
Mark Burow (Texas Tech University, USA)
Rachel Burton (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Françoise Carreel (Agropolis–CIRAD)
Ana Casas (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain)
Hâna Chair (Agropolis–CIRAD)
Shiaoman Chao (USDA–ARS, USA)
Alain Charcosset (Agropolis–INRA)
Joong Hyoun Chin (IRRI)
Ye Chu (University of Georgia Tifton, USA)
Nicholas Collins (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Tristan Coram (The Dow Chemical Company, USA)
Moisés Alberto Cortes (CIMMYT) - based at INIFAP Mexico since April 2009
Brigitte Courtois (Agropolis–CIRAD)
Emma Cushworth (University of Queensland, Australia)
Marco Dalla Rizza (Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria, Uruguay)
Guy Davenport (CIMMYT)
Christophe Dayteg (Consultant, Spain)
Everaldo de Barros (Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Brazil)
Stefan De Haan (CIP)
Soraya Cristina de Macedo Leal Bertioli (Embrapa, Brazil)
Santie de Villiers (ICRISAT)
Etienne Duveiller (CIMMYT)
Jeff Ehlers (University of California–Riverside, USA)
Gebisa Ejeta (Purdue University, USA)
Noel Ellis (John Innes Centre, UK)
Morag Ferguson (IITA)
Sherry Flint-Garcia (USDA–ARS, USA)
Rebecca Ford (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Martin Fregene (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA)
Shu Fukai (University of Queensland, Australia)
Bonnie Furman (USDA–ARS, USA)
Martin Ganal (TraitGenetics GMBH, Germany)
Pooran Gaur (ICRISAT)
Melaku Gedil (IITA)
Paul Gepts (University of California–Davis, USA)
Juan Gil (Universidad de Córdoba, Spain) 
Major Goodman (North Carolina State University, USA)
Cecile Grenier (CIAT)
Tajinder Grewal (Saskatchewan Research Council, Canada)
Natalia Gutierrez (Alameda del Obispo Centre–Instituto de Investigación y Formación Agraria y Pesquera de Andalucía, Spain)
David Harrap (KWS UK Ltd, UK)
Tom Hash (ICRISAT)
Bettina Haussmann (ICRISAT)
Patrick Hayes (Oregon State University, USA)
Sarah Hearne (IITA)
Ján Heldák (Potato Research and Breeding Institute, Slovakia)
Sigrid Heuer (IRRI)
Isabelle Hippolyte (Agropolis–CIRAD)
Corley Holbrook (USDA–ARS, USA)
Jean-Pierre Horry (Agropolis–CIRAD)
Marie-Line Iskra-Caruana (Agropolis–CIRAD)
Kshirod Jena (IRRI)
Christophe Jenny (Agropolis–CIRAD)
Jong-Seong Jeon (Kyunghee University, Korea)
Yulin Jia (USDA–ARS, USA)
Jiming Jiang (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)
Jonathan Jones (The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK)
Jack Juvik (University of Illinois, USA)
James Kelly (Michigan State University, USA) 
Nobuya  Kobayashi (IRRI)
Dan Kiambi (ICRISAT–Kenya)
Andrzej Kilian (Diversity Arrays Technology, Australia)
Edgar King (USDA–ARS, USA)
Steven Knapp (The University of Georgia, USA)
Maria Kolesnikova-Allen (Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre, UK)
Lara Kramer (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)
Anand Kumar (AERC, Canada)
Jonaliza Lanceras-Siangliw (Kasetsart University, Thailand)
Peter Langridge (The University of Adelaide, Australia)
Mathias Lorieux (Agropolis−IRD/CIAT)
David Mackill (IRRI)
Jurandir Magalhaes (Embrapa, Brazil)
George Mahuku (CIMMYT)
Yann Manès (CIMMYT)
Baboucarr Manneh (WARDA)
Thierry Marcel (Plant Research International, The Netherlands)
Saghai Maroof (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)
Diane Mather (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Susan McCouch (Cornell University, USA)
Hodeba Mignouna (African Agricultural Technology Foundation,  Kenya)
Phillip Miklas (USDA–ARS, USA)
Teresa Millán (Universidad de Córdoba, Spain)
Jose Luis Molina-Cano (Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Spain) 
Suvendu Mondal (Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, India)
Fred Muehlbauer (USDA-ARS, USA)
Marie-Noelle Ndjiondjop (WARDA)
Ousmane Ndoye (Centre National de la Recherche Agronomique/Institut Senegalais de Recherches Agricoles, Senegal)
Julie Nicol (CIMMYT)
Rients Niks (Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands)
Jean-Louis Noyer (CIRAD, France)
Elizabeth Okai (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research–Crops Research Institute, Ghana)
Emmanuel Okogbenin (National Root Crops Research Institute, Nigeria)
Bernardo Ordas (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain)
Frank Ordon (Julius-Kühn-Institut, Germany)
Heiko K Parzies (University of Hohenheim, Germany)
Andrew Paterson (University of Georgia, USA)
Vishwanath M Patil (University of Oslo, Norway)
Claudie Pavis (INRA, Antilles-Guyane)
Tom Payne (CIMMYT)
Lalith Perera (Coconut Research Institute, Sri Lanka)
Rajesh Perianayagam (Dow AgroSciences, USA)
Kevin Pixley (CIMMYT)
BM Prasanna (Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India)
Rich Pratt (Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, USA)
Venuprasad Ramaiah (IRRI)
Pedro Revilla (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain)
Bernardo Rex (University of Minnesota, USA)
Ignacio Romagosa (Universidad de Lleida, Spain)
Franklin Rosales (Bioversity International)
Nicolas Roux (Bioversity International)
Manuel Ruiz (Agropolis–CIRAD)
Joanne Russell (Scottish Crop Research Institute, UK)
Basudeb Sarkar (ICARDA)
Alieu Sartie (IITA)
Brian Scheffler (USDA–ARS, USA)
Endang Septiningsih (IRRI)
Zeba Seraj (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Rachid Serraj (IRRI)
Rosemary Shrestha (CIMMYT)
Rakesh Kumar Singh (IRRI)
Ravu Singh (CIMMYT)
Margaret Smith (Cornell University, USA)
Stephen Smith (Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., USA)
Mark Sorrells (Cornell University, USA)
Katherine Steele (Bangor University, United Kingdom)
Rony Swennen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
RP Thakur (ICRISAT)
Jean Baptiste Tignegre De La Salle (Institut de l’environnement et de recherches agricoles, Burkina Faso)
Joe Tohme (CIAT)
Ana Maria Torres (Alameda del Obispo Centre–Instituto de Investigación y Formación Agraria y Pesquera de Andalucía, Spain)
Richard Trethowan (University of Sydney, Australia)
Vincent Vadez (ICRISAT)
Jari Valkonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Ralph van Berloo (Keygene NV, The Netherlands)
Fred van Eeuwijk (Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands)
Theo Van Hintum (Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands)
Rajeev Varshney (ICRISAT)
Casiana Vera Cruz (IRRI)
Valerie Verdier (Agropolis–IRD)
Yves Vigouroux (Agropolis–IRD)
Bi Vroh (IITA)
Marilyn Warburton (USDA–ARS, USA)
Robbie Waugh (Scottish Crop Research Institute, UK)
Martha Willcox (Washington, USA)
Yunbi Xu (CIMMYT)
Rattan Yadav (Aberystwyth University, UK)
Noel Yap (Cornell University, USA)
Yi Zhi-Ben (Department of Chemistry and Environment Engineering, North University of China)