Achievements in Genome Sequencing of Major Oilseeds

With the ever increasing human population around the world, food security and climate change are the major thurst areas of research for both public and private sectors alike. Having said that, the most resilient way to combat both issues is to develop high yielding yet stress tolerant crop varieties. Since traditional methods are time consuming, molecular breeding is the chosen one. Molecular breeding essentializes thorough knowledge of plants’ genome information. This can be achieved with various ways like gene mapping and cloning which are in turn dependent on genome sequence data.