Genotype × environment interaction QTL mapping in plants: Lessons from Arabidopsis

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 390-398

  El Soda, Mohamed ^a,b   Malosetti, Marcos ^a   Zwaan, Bas J ^a   Koornneef, Maarten ^a,c   Aarts, Mark G M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antagonistic pleiotropy; Genotype environment interaction; Phenotypic plasticity; QTL environment interaction

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84901392210     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2014.01.001     Document Type: Review

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