Detection of QTL for flowering time in multiple families of elite maize

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 125, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1539-1551

  Steinhoff, Jana ^a   Liu, Wenxin ^a,b   Reif, Jochen C ^a   Porta, Giovanni Della ^c   Ranc, Nicolas ^d   Würschum, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Syngenta Seeds SpA   (Italy)

^d Syngenta Seeds SAS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; CHROMOSOMES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; EPISTATIC INTERACTIONS; GENETIC ARCHITECTURE; GENETIC BACKGROUNDS; GENOTYPIC VARIATIONS; JOINT ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATIONS; QUANTITATIVE TRAITS;

ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84867432146     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-012-1933-4     Document Type: Article

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