Meta-analyses of QTL for grain yield and anthesis silking interval in 18 maize populations evaluated under water-stressed and well-watered environments

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Semagn, Kassa ^a   Beyene, Yoseph ^a   Warburton, Marilyn L ^b   Tarekegne, Amsal ^c   Mugo, Stephen ^a   Meisel, Barbara ^d   Sehabiague, Pierre ^e   Prasanna, Boddupalli M ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Kenya)

^b Corn Host Plant Resistance Research Unit ^*  (United States)

^c CIMMYT   (Zimbabwe)

^d MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^e Monsanto SAS   (France)

Author keywords

Breeding; Drought; Heritability; Maize; Managed water stress; Meta analysis; SNP

Indexed keywords

ANTHESIS SILKING INTERVAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING LINE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; FLOWERING; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAIN YIELD; HERITABILITY; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WATER STRESS;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENT; FLOWERS; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WATER; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84877246467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-313     Document Type: Article

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