Fine Mapping and Candidate Gene Prediction of a Pleiotropic Quantitative Trait Locus for Yield-Related Trait in Zea mays

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Ruixiang ^a,b   Jia, Haitao ^a   Cao, Xiaoliang ^a,b   Huang, Jun ^a   Li, Feng ^a   Tao, Yongsheng ^b   Qiu, Fazhan ^a   Zheng, Yonglian ^a   Zhang, Zuxin ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEBEI   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAIN YIELD; HEREDITY; KNPR6 GENE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAIZE; MERISTEM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; PLEIOTROPY; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SELFING; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT;

ALLELES; CEREALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CROSSES, GENETIC; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PLEIOTROPY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84869801976     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049836     Document Type: Article

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