A new approach to the use of protein markers in the process of corn breeding for drought tolerance

Abstract

The problem of creating drought-resistant corn hybrids of the local breeding is becoming during the past decades particularly relevant, because the increasing frequency of dry vegetation periods in the Republic of Moldova. By the reason, the Crop Science Institute "Porumbeni" has been implementing an institutional project since 2015 the main goal of it is creation an algorithm for selecting drought-resistant corn genotypes by the physiological and biochemical diagnostics for the creation of drought-resistant corn hybrids.