Single-copy gene based 50K “OsSNPnks” chip

Background
The traditional breeding takes longer time to develop a new improved variety as complex quantitative traits are very difficult to select due to low heritability. Genotyping by sequencing (GBS) and high-density array-based SNP detection are the two major high-multiplexing SNP genotyping platforms. Although GBS is claimed to be effective there is problem of commonly genotyped SNPs across individuals of a population.
Technology Details
By using the new ’rice chip’ the time taken to breeders will be halved and can be used for rapidly genotyping several common SNPs across samples with relatively easy data analysis.