Maize Characterization: From Genotyping to High-Throughput Phenotyping, A Review

By : Latif Ahmad Peer, Zahoor A. Dar, Aijaz A. Lone, Mohd. Yaqub Bhat

Page No: 121-131

Abstract
Zea mays L., Maize, a crop cultivated globally, is used as food, feed, and used to manufacture diversified industrial products. It has become necessary to employ new methods for high maize production and increase its quality potential in response to the upsurge in the human population and climate change. The maize breeding procedures have now incorporated important components like genome-wide selection and high-density genotyping to ease the functional analysis of its genome. Every growth stage displays tremendous genetic diversity in maize, which can be studied through advanced phenotyping and genotyping technologies wherein physiological, genetic, and molecular characteristics can be understood and manipulated. Such studies will undoubtedly lead to an increase in maize crop improvement. This review highlights the developments in the characterization of maize through genotyping and phenotyping with the advent of novel technologies.

Authors :
Latif Ahmad Peer : Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar 190006, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Zahoor A. Dar : Dryland Agriculture Research Station, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir-191121, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Aijaz A. Lone : Dryland Agriculture Research Station, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir-191121, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Mohd. Yaqub Bhat : Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar 190006, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPSR.2021.37.01.16