marker-assisted selection
- marker-assisted selection
Abbreviation: MAS
The use of
DNA markers to improve response to selection in a population. The markers will be closely linked to one or more target loci, which may often be quantitative trait loci.
Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture .
2015.
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