Quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping using different testers and independent population samples in maize reveals low power of QTL detection and large bias in estimates of QTL effects

Genetics

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 383-403

  Melchinger, Albrecht E ^a,b   Friedrich Utz, H ^a   Schör, Chris C ^b  

^a Institute of Plant Breeding Seed Science and Population Genetics

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; ZEA MAYS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031833578     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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