A critical review: impacts of salinity on yield and fiber quality traits of cotton

Marker assisted selection
 
Marker-assisted selection (MAS) is the process 
of using morphological, biochemical, or DNA markers 
as indirect selection criteria for selecting agriculturally 
important traits in crop breeding. This process is used 
to improve the effectiveness or efficiency of selection 
for the traits of interest in breeding programs. With the 
recent advances in marker technology, including high-
throughput genotyping of plants, together with the 
development 
of 
nested 
association 
mapping 
populations, it is expected that the utility of MAS for 
breeding for stress tolerance traits will increase. 
Salt 
tolerance is a complex quantitative trait that is 
controlled by many genes each of which have small 
effect. It is impossible to elucidate its genetic control 
through a single gene-based studies. Genetic basis of 
salt tolerance in various plants have been explained by 
QTL (quantitative trait loci) analyses. Marker assisted 
selection is a promising approach for indirect selection 
of salt tolerant genotypes. Proteomic techniques can 
be used as a tool to identify proteins linked with salt 
resistance.