Maps for cereals, millets and sugarcane (grass family)
Molecular maps have been prepared in all major cereals, millets and other graminaceous crops including maize, bread wheat, emmer wheat, oats, barley, rice. sorghum, pearl millet, sugarcane, etc. The most extensive maps among cereal genomes, however, are available in case of rice, which has become a model for all graminaceous crops and has therefore been the first food crop to be used for genomics research (due to its small genome size of 430 Mb). As many as about 2300 marker loci spanning a genetic distance of 1800 cM, have been mapped in this crop.


