Genome-wide association analyses of 54 traits identified multiple loci for the determination of floret fertility in wheat

New Phytologist

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 257-270

  Guo, Zifeng ^a   Chen, Dijun ^a   Alqudah, Ahmad M ^a   Röder, Marion S ^a   Ganal, Martin W ^b   Schnurbusch, Thorsten ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b TRAITGENETICS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

assimilate distribution; candidate genes; floret fertility; genome wide association study (GWAS); quantitative trait locus (QTL); spike morphology

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CROP YIELD; CYTOGENETICS; FERTILITY; FLORAL TRAIT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MORPHOLOGY; PLANT BREEDING; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; FERTILITY; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; WHEAT;

FERTILITY; GENETIC PLEIOTROPY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TRITICUM;

EID: 85008256538     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.14342     Document Type: Article

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