Crop Genebank Knowledge Base

A function of the distribution and abundance of species similar in meaning to species richness. In more technical literature includes considerations of the evenness of species abundances. An ecosystem is said to be more diverse according to the more technical definition if species present have equal population sizes and less diverse if many species are rare and some are very common.

The number of years that a seed can be stored before seed death occurs.

Refers to two or more populations that occupy overlapping geographic areas.

A trademark term for a high throughput closed tube assay to detect specific sequences in PCR products.

A molecular marker technique related to SRAP, but using a fixed primer desgned from a targeted EST sequence.

The ???template??? DNA that is used for the initial reaction of a molecular marker analysis.

A test for viability in which moist seeds are soaked in a solution of triphenyl tetrazolium chloride.

The process of beating plants with a machine or by hand to separate the seeds.

The detection of allelic variation at genes of known basic sequence by hybridization tests on microarrays using large series of sequence-overlapping probes.

A recognizable quality or attribute resulting from interaction of a gene or a group of genes with the environment.