Genome Anchored QTLs for Biomass Productivity in Hybrid Populus Grown under Contrasting Environments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Muchero, Wellington ^a   Sewell, Mitchell M ^a,b   Ranjan, Priya ^a   Gunter, Lee E ^a   Tschaplinski, Timothy J ^a   Yin, Tongming ^a,c   Tuskan, Gerald A ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center   (United States)

^c Nanjin Forestry University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLP GENE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENOME; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT HEIGHT; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RAPD GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SSR GENE;

BIOMASS; CROSSES, GENETIC; ENVIRONMENT; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME, PLANT; LOD SCORE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; POPULUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84873839313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054468     Document Type: Article

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