Table 4.
Breeder-ready marker discovery-validation-deployment pipeline for some of the client-preferred/climate-adaptive traits in tropical maize germplasm. The black dots represent the present stage of the trait in the pipeline
| Traits | Discovery | Field validation | Haplotype optimization | Assay verification | Deployment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breeding parents | Breeding Populations | |||||
| Maize streak virus (MSV) | ● | |||||
| Maize lethal necrosis (MLN) | ● | |||||
| Turcicum leaf blight (TLB) | ● | ● | ||||
| Tar spot complex | ● | |||||
| Grey leaf spot (GLS) | ● | |||||
| Common rust | ● | |||||
| Fusarium ear rot (SSA) | ● | |||||
| Fusarium ear rot (Latin America) | ● | |||||
| Post-flowering stalk rot (Asia) | ● | |||||
| Fusarium stalk rot (Latin America) | ● | |||||
| Aflatoxin (SSA) | ● | ● | ||||
| Striga | ● | ● | ||||
| Fall armyworm | ● | |||||
| Provitamin A | ● | |||||
| Kernel Zinc | ● | |||||