Toward understanding genetic mechanisms of complex traits in rice

Journal of Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 653-666

  Hao, Wei ^a   Lin Hong Xuan, H X ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Map based cloning; Mapping populations; Marker assisted selection (MAS); Quantitative trait loci (QTLs); Rice

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC STRESS; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; GRAIN; GRAIN QUALITY; GRAIN YIELD; INSECT RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHYSICAL TOLERANCE; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT HEIGHT; PLANT SEED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; REVIEW; RICE; SALT TOLERANCE; SEED SHATTERING; SUBMERGENCE TOLERANCE;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; IMMUNITY, INNATE; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SALT-TOLERANCE;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 77958521909     PISSN: 16738527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1673-8527(09)60084-9     Document Type: Review

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