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This is Shashi Bhushan Tripathi from The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India.

I am writing in response to the point made by Dr Rai (Message 38) regarding the impact of marker-assisted selection (MAS) in plant breeding so far and my comments are from the Indian perspective only. We are working on marker-assisted breeding in several crops such as Indian mustard, Jatropha and Chilies for the past 10 years. I would like to state that the potential of MAS has not yet been realized to any level which could be considered significant. I would like to list some major causes for this from our own experience:

1. Most of the breeders in India (except few big institutes and seed companies) do not have access to marker technology. A good number of them even do not know how MAS can help in breeding. Those who work on MAS should proactively discuss with breeders to understand the requirements of breeders and to make them aware about the technology.

2. Most of the publications on marker/QTL identification are from those groups which themselves do not have the mandate of breeding and varietal development/release. Lot of effort is needed to convert the findings of a publication into a mature technologies. The current regime of "publish or perish" does not provide enough incentives to these researchers in this direction.

3. The cost economics of MAS is currently not very attractive to seed companies.

Shashi Bhushan Tripathi, PhD.
Fellow
Biotechnology and Management of Bioresources Division
The Energy and Resources Institute
India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road
New Delhi- 110003, 
India.
Tel.  (91)-011-24682100 extn. 2528.
      (91)-09811870528 (Mobile)
E-mail: sbhushan (at) teri.res.in
Website: www.teriin.org 

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