Stability of QTL across environments and QTL-by-environment interactions for plant and ear height in maize

Agricultural Sciences in China

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1400-1412

  Zhang, Yan ^a   Li, Yong Xiang ^a   Wang, Yang ^a   Liu, Zhi Zhai ^a,c   Liu, Cheng ^b   Peng, Bo ^a   Tan, Wei Wei ^a   Wang, Di ^a   Shi, Yun Su ^a   Sun, Bao Cheng ^b   Song, Yan Chun ^a   Wang, Tian Yu ^a   Li, Yu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^c SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ear height; Maize (Zea mays L.); Plant height; QTL; QTL by environment; Stability

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77958125787     PISSN: 16712927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1671-2927(09)60231-5     Document Type: Article

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