Quantitative trait locus analysis of seed germination and seedling vigor in brassica rapa reveals QTL hotspots and epistatic interactions

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue DEC, 2015, Pages

  Basnet, Ram K ^a,b   Duwal, Anita ^a   Tiwari, Dev N ^a   Xiao, Dong ^a,c   Monakhos, Sokrat ^a,d   Bucher, Johan ^a   Visser, Richard G F ^a,b   Groot, Steven P C ^a   Bonnema, Guusje ^a,b   Maliepaard, Chris ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRE FOR BIOSYSTEMS GENOMICS   (Netherlands)

^c NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d RUSSIAN STATE AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Brassica rapa; Candidate genes; QTL mapping; Salt stress; Seed germination; Seedling vigor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84950310722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.01032     Document Type: Article

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