Quality Protein Maize manual
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) has just published "Breeding Quality Protein Maize (QPM): Protocols for developing QPM cultivars" by B.S. Vivek and co-authors. The 50-page manual is intended for maize breeders who would like to start developing QPM cultivars. It is a compilation and consolidation of several breeding protocols successfully used at CIMMYT over two decades of QPM development and breeding. A brief background and the basic theory of QPM genetics are explained, leading up to detailed methods and procedures of QPM development. A chapter is dedicated to marker-assisted selection. QPM grain contains enhanced levels of the essential amino acids lysine and tryptophan, along with other characteristics that make more of its protein useful to humans or farm animals. See the
manual (1.7 MB) or contact
[email protected] for more information.
