QTLs associated with root traits increase yield in upland rice when transferred through marker-assisted selection

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 101-108

  Steele, K A ^a   Price, A H ^b   Witcombe, J R ^a   Shrestha, Roshi ^c   Singh, B N ^d   Gibbons, J M ^a   Virk, D S ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d BIRSA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED CONDITIONS; EASTERN INDIA; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FIELD CONDITIONS; GENETIC BACKGROUNDS; INTROGRESSED; MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION; MULTIPLE ROOTS; ORYZA SATIVA; QTL EFFECTS; RICE CULTIVARS; ROOT MORPHOLOGY; SOIL WATER AVAILABILITY;

AGRICULTURE;

LANDFORMS;

WATER;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CROP; CROSS BREEDING; DROUGHT; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INDIA; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PLANT ROOT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RICE; SOIL;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROUGHTS; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; INDIA; ORYZA SATIVA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT ROOTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOIL; WATER;

ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 84871922816     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-012-1963-y     Document Type: Article

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