Identification of novel quantitative trait loci for days to ear emergence and flag leaf glaucousness in a bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) population adapted to southern Australian conditions

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 697-711

  Bennett, Dion ^a,b   Izanloo, Ali ^a,d   Edwards, James ^a,b   Kuchel, Haydn ^b   Chalmers, Ken ^a   Tester, Mark ^a   Reynolds, Matthew ^c   Schnurbusch, Thorsten ^a,e   Langridge, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Australian Grain Technologies   (Australia)

^c INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRJAND   (Iran)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; DROUGHT; FOOD PRODUCTS; GENES;

DROUGHT TOLERANCES; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GENETIC VARIANCE; GLASSHOUSE CONDITIONS; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATIONS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RECOMBINANT INBRED LINES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHROMOSOME MAP; CROSS BREEDING; DROUGHT; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAPLOIDY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; WHEAT;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, PLANT; DROUGHTS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOIDY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRITICUM;

EID: 84861796025     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-011-1740-3     Document Type: Article

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