Chapter 1 Essential principles of molecular marker and quantitative trait loci associations 1
Chapter 2 Method development for identifying functional markers in the soybean genome 15
Chapter 3 Map development and marker-assisted selection for oligogenic and polygeneic traits 45
Chapter 4 QTL analysis of fungal disease resistance 59
Chapter 5 Identification of loci for resistance to insects and nematodes 89
Chapter 6 QTL analysis for seed quality traits 128
Chapter 7 Seed yield and component trait loci 168
Chapter 8 Loci underlying soil edaphic,physiological and developmental traits 183
Chapter 9 Dynamic QTL analysis of major quantitative traits 201
Chapter 10 Molecular mapping and breeding for biotic stress resistance 237