CIMMYT’s Research on Maize DH Technology

Reviews/Book chapters

• Chaikam V, & Prasanna, BM (2020). Doubled haploid technology for rapid and efficient maize breeding. In Accelerated Plant Breeding, 1 : 257-292, Springer, Cham.
• Chaikam V, Molenaar W, Melchinger AE, Boddupalli, PM (2019). Doubled haploid technology for line development in maize: technical advances and prospects. Theor Appl Genet 132 (12): 3227-3243
• Prasanna BM, Chaikam V, Mahuku G (2012) Doubled haploid technology in maize breeding: theory and practice. CIMMYT, Mexico, D.F.

Haploid identification

• Chaikam V, Lopez LA, Martinez L, Burgueno J, Boddupalli PM (2017). Identification of in vivo induced maternal haploids in maize using seedling traits. Euphytica 213(8):177
• Chaikam V, Nair SK, Babu R, Martinez L, Tejomurtula J and Boddupalli PM (2015) Analysis of effectiveness of R1-nj anthocyanin marker for in vivo haploid identification in maize and molecular markers for predicting the inhibition of R1-nj expression. Theor Appl Genet 128(1):159-171

Chromosome doubling

• Chaikam V, Gowda M, Martinez L, Ochieng J, Omar HA, Prasanna BM (2020). Improving the efficiency of colchicine-based chromosomal doubling of maize haploids. Plants. 9(4):459
• Chaikam V, Gowda M, Nair SK, Melchinger AE, Boddupalli PM (2019). Genome-wide association study to identify genomic regions influencing spontaneous fertility in maize haploids. Euphytica 215(8):138
• Kleiber D, Prigge V, Melchinger AE, Burkard F, San Vicente F, Palomino G, Gordillo GA(2012). Haploid fertility in temperate and tropical maize germplasm. Crop science. 52(2):623-30