Complex genetics controls natural variation among seed quality phenotypes in a recombinant inbred population of an interspecific cross between Solanum lycopersicum×Solanum pimpinellifolium

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 929-951

  Kazmi, Rashid H ^a   Khan, Noorullah ^a   Willems, Leo A J ^a   Van Heusden, Adriaan W ^a   Ligterink, Wilco ^a   Hilhorst, Henk W M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Epistasis; Heritability; QTL (quantitative trait locus); Seed germination; Tomato

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERMINATION; HERB; HERITABILITY; INBREEDING; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOMBINATION;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME MAP; COLD; DRUG EFFECT; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GERMINATION; HEAT; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT SEED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; TOMATO;

BREEDING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; COLD TEMPERATURE; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GERMINATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEEDS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

EID: 84859436262     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2011.02463.x     Document Type: Article

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