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An important advantage of biotechnology applied to plant breeding is the speeding up of cultivar release that would otherwise take 8 – 12 years.

It is the process of selection that is actually enhanced, i. e., retaining that which is desirable or promising and ridding that which is not.

This carries with it the aim of changing the genetic structure of the plant population.

The website is a valuable resource for marker assisted selection ( MAS ) protocols relating to R-genes in wheat.

MAS is a form of indirect selection.

The Catalogue of Gene Symbols mentioned earlier is an additional source of molecular and morphological markers.

Again, triticale has not been well characterised with respect to molecular markers, although an abundance of rye molecular markers makes it possible to track rye chromosomes and segments thereof within a triticale background.