QTL mapping in white spruce: Gene maps and genomic regions underlying adaptive traits across pedigrees, years and environments

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Pelgas, Betty ^a,b   Bousquet, Jean ^b   Meirmans, Patrick G ^a,c   Ritland, Kermit ^d   Isabel, Nathalie ^a,b  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BUD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENOTYPE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WHITE SPRUCE; ADAPTATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; CROSS BREEDING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; SPRUCE;

CONIFEROPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA;

PLANT DNA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, PLANT; ENVIRONMENT; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIOD; PICEA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 79952357080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-145     Document Type: Article

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