Improving rice yield and quality by QTL pyramiding

Molecular Breeding

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 903-913

  Wang, Peng ^a,b   Xing, Yongzhong ^a   Li, Zhikang ^c,d   Yu, Sibin ^a,b  

^a Huazhong Agricultural University   (China)

^b HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Heading date; Heterogeneous inbred families; Marker assisted selection; Pleiotropy; Rice (Oryza sativa L.)

Indexed keywords

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); PLANTS (BOTANY);

HEADING DATE; HETEROGENEOUS INBREED FAMILY; MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION; NEAR ISOGENIC LINES; PLEIOTROPY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RECOMBINANT INBRED LINES; RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L); RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.); RICE YIELD;

GENES;

ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 84859164280     PISSN: 13803743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11032-011-9679-2     Document Type: Article

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