Linkage relationships among multiple QTL for horticultural traits and late blight (P. infestans) resistance on chromosome 5 introgressed from wild tomato solanum habrochaites

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2131-2146

  Haggard, J Erron ^a   Johnson, Emily B ^a   St Clair, Dina A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Introgression; Linkage drag; QTL mapping; Solanum lycopersicum; Tomato

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 5; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVATED SPECIES; FRUIT BREEDING; FRUIT SIZE; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INTROGRESSION; LATE BLIGHT; NEAR ISOGENIC LINE; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLEIOTROPY; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SOLANUM HABROCHAITES; TOMATO; WILD PLANT;

LYCOPERSICON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; LYCOPERSICON HIRSUTUM; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS;

INTROGRESSION; LINKAGE DRAG; QTL MAPPING; SOLANUM LYCOPERSICUM; TOMATO;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FRUIT; GENETIC LINKAGE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PLANT DISEASES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOLANUM;

EID: 84890819615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.113.007195     Document Type: Article

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