Identification of QTL for early vigor and stay-green conferring tolerance to drought in two connected advanced backcross populations in tropical maize (Zea mays L.)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Trachsel, Samuel ^a   Sun, Dapeng ^c   Sanvicente, Felix M ^a   Zheng, Hongjian ^c   Atlin, Gary N ^a   Suarez, Edgar Antonio ^a   Babu, Raman ^b   Zhang, Xuecai ^a  

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

^b INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

^c INSTITUTE OF EDIBLE FUNGI   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BREEDING; DROUGHT; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; EAR; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; FLOWERING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GRAIN YIELD; HETEROSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAIZE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RAMET; ADAPTATION; CROSS BREEDING; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROUGHTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; TROPICAL CLIMATE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84962359601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149636     Document Type: Article

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