Combining molecular marker technology and participatory techniques: A case study for drought-tolerant rice in eastern India II: Farmer evaluation of SLS-MAS bulks in participatory plant breeding

摘要

We wish to test if participatory approaches and modern molecular marker techniques can be effectively combined. To do this we have integrated participatory plant breeding (PPB) with marker-assisted selection (MAS). MAS was used to fix regions containing a QTL for aroma and four QTLs for root traits. The PPB has been carried out on six bulks selected with molecular markers via modified single large-scale MAS (SLS-MAS). Bulks were given to farmers in three states of eastern India for evaluation over two seasons of collaborative PPB. The same bulks were also tested on-station through consultative PPB, with off-season seed multiplication.