Reference :1

Abdelraheem, A., Fang, D.D., Zhang, J., 2018. Quantitative trait locus mapping of drought and salt tolerance in an introgressed recombinant inbred line population of Upland cotton under the greenhouse and field conditions. Euphytica 214(1), 1–20. Doi:10.1007/s10681–017–2095–x

Akkaya, M.S., Bhagwat, A.A., Cregan, P.B., 1992. Length polymorphisms of simple sequence repeat DNA in soybean. Genetics 132(4), 1131–1139.

Anonymous, 2020. ICAR–All India Coordinated Research Project on Cotton – Annual Report. Nagpur: ICAR–Central Institute for Cotton Research.

Asif, M., Rahman, M.U., Mirza, J.I., Zafar, Y., 2009. Parentage confirmation of cotton hybrids using molecular markers. Pakistan Journal of Botany 41(2), 695–701.

Botstein, D., White, R.L., Skolnick, M., Davis, R.W., 1980. Construction of a genetic linkage map in man using restriction fragment length polymorphisms. American Journal of Human Genetics 32, 314–31. PMID: 6247908; PMCID: PMC1686077.

Cai, C., Wu, S., Niu, E., Cheng, C., Guo, W., 2017. Identification of genes related to salt stress tolerance using intron-length polymorphic markers, association mapping and virus-induced gene silencing in cotton. Scientific Reports 7(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-017-00617-7

Dongre, A.B., Raut, M.P., Bhandarkar M.R., Meshram, K.J., 2011. Identification and genetic purity testing of cotton F1 hybrid using molecular markers. Indian Journal of Biotechnology 10, 301–306. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/12106

Garcia, A.F., Benchimol, L.L., Barbosa, A.M.M., Geraldi, I.O., Souza, C.L., Dsouza, S.A.P., 2004. Comparison of RAPD, RFLP, AFLP and SSR markers for diversity studies in tropical maize inbred lines. Journal of Genetics and Molecular Biology 27(4), 579–588. DOI: 10.1590/S1415-47572004000400019

Jiang, C., Wright, R.J., Woo, S.S., Del Monte, T.A., Peterson, A.H., 2000. QTL analysis of leaf morphology in tetraploid Gossypium (cotton). Theoretical and Applied Genetics 100, 409– 418. DOI: 10.1007/s001220050054

Johar, V., Dhillon R.S., Singhdoha, A., 2018. Evaluation of genetic diversity among different Meliacomposita CPTs using Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) Markers. International Journal of Bio-resource and Stress Management 9(1), 30–36. DOI:10.23910/IJBSM/2018.9.1.3C0105

Kumar, A., Sandhu, N., Venkateshwarlu, C., Priyadarshi, R., Yadav, S., Majumder, R.R., Singh, V.K., 2020. Development of introgression lines in high yielding, semi–dwarf genetic backgrounds to enable improvement of modern rice varieties for tolerance to multiple abiotic stresses free from undesirable linkage drag. Scientific Reports 10(1). DOI:10.1038/s41598-020-70132-9

Liu, S., Saha, S., Stelly, D., Burr, B., Cantrell, R.G., 2000. Chromosomal assignment of microsatellite loci in cotton. Journal of Heredity 91(4), 326–332.

Liu, Z., Furnier, G.R., 1993. Comparison of allozyme, RFLP, and RAPD markers for revealing genetic variation within and between trembling aspen and bigtooth aspen. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 87, 97–105. DOI: 10.1007/BF00223752.

Mahmoud, B.A., Omar, S.A., Shaker, S.A., Darwesh, A.E.I., 2018. Markers assisted selection for salt tolerance among some cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.)genotypes.  Egyptian Journal of Genetics and Cytology 47, 311–327.

Metsalu, T., Vilo, J., 2015. Clustvis: a web tool for visualizing clustering of multivariate data using Principal Component Analysis and heatmap. Nucleic Acids Research 43(W1), W566–W570. Doi: 10.1093/nar/gkv468.

Papp, A.C., Pinsonneault, J.K., Cooke G., Sadee, W., 2003. Single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping using allele–specific PCR and fluorescence melting curves. Biotechniques 34(5), 1068–72. Doi: 10.2144/03345dd03.

Patella, A., Palumbo, F., Galla, G., Barcaccia, G., 2019. The molecular determination of hybridity and homozygosity estimates in breeding populations of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.). Genes 10 (916), 1–12. DOI:10.3390/genes10110916

Rahman, M., Hussain, D., Zafar, Y., 2002. Estimation of divergence among elite cotton cultivars–genotypes by DNA fingerprinting technology. Crop Science 42, 2137–2144.

Rana, M.K., Singh, S., Bhat, K.V., 2006. RAPD, STMS and ISSR markers for genetic diversity and hybrid seed purity testing in cotton. Seed Science and Technology 35(3), 709–721. Doi:10.15258/sst.2007.35.3.17

Rohlf, F.J., 1998. On applications of geometric morphometrics to studies of ontogeny and phylogeny. System Biology 47, 147–158. DOI:10.2307/2585239

Sambrook, J., Russell, D.W., 2001. Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual.cold spring harbor laboratory press, cold spring Harbor, New York, 15–65.

Samuel, C.C., Mohd, Y.R., Shairul, I.R., Siti, I.I., Yusuff, O., Ismaila, M., Ibrahim, M., Muideen, A., Muhammed, I.J., Bashir, R.Y., 2020. Recovery of recurrent parent genome in a marker-assisted backcrossing against rice blast and blight infections using functional markers and SSRs. Plants 9, 1411.

Selvakumar, P., Ravikesavan, R., Gopikrishnan, A., Thiyagu, K., Preetha, S., Manikanda, N., 2010. Genetic purity analysis of cotton (Gossypium spp.) hybrids using SSR markers. Seed Science and Technology 38, 358–366. DOI: 10.15258/sst.2010.38.2.09

Singh, C., Rajkumar, Kumar, V., Patel, D.H., Patil, V.R., 2015. DNA fingerprinting of upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) hybrids and their parents using RAPD and SSR markers. International Journal of Bio-resource and Stress Management 6(6), 728–735.

Smith, J.S.C., Chin, E.C.L., Shu, H., Smith, O.S., Wall, S.J., Senior, M.L., Mitchell, S.E., Kresovich, S., Zeigle, J., 1997. An evaluation of the utility of SSR loci as molecular markers in maize (Zea mays L.): comparisons with data from RFLPs and pedigree. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 95(1–2), 163–173. DOI:10.1007/s001220050544

Sun, H.,Meng, M., Yan, Z., Lin, Z., Nie, X., Yang, X., 2019. Genome–wide association mapping of stress–tolerance traits in cotton. The Crop Journal 7(1), 77–88. Doi.org/10.1016/j.cj.2018.11.002

Vos, P., Hogers, R., Bleeker, M., Reijans, M., Lee, T.V.D., Hornes, M., Friters, A., Pot, J., Paleman, J., Kuiper, M., Zabeau, M., 1995. AFLP: a new technique for DNA fingerprinting. Nucleic acids research 23(21), 4407–4414. Doi:10.1093/nar/23.21.4407

Wang, F., Stewart, J.M., Zhang, J., 2007. Molecular markers linked to the Rf2 fertility restorer gene in cotton. Genome 50(9), 818–824. doi:10.1139/g07-061

Williams, J.G.K., Kubelik, A.R., Livak, K.J., Rafalski, J.A., Tingey, S.V., 1990. DNA polymorphisms amplified by arbitrary primers are useful as genetic markers. Nucleic Acids Research 18(22), 6531–6535. doi:10.1093/nar/18.22.6531

Zhang, T., Yuan, Y., Yu, J., Guo, W., Kohel, R.J., 2003. Molecular tagging of a major QTL for fiber strength in Upland cotton and its marker–assisted selection. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 106, 262–268.