Genome-wide association study for 13 agronomic traits reveals distribution of superior alleles in bread wheat from the Yellow and Huai Valley of China

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 953-969

  Sun, Congwei ^a   Zhang, Fuyan ^a,b   Yan, Xuefang ^a   Zhang, Xiangfen ^a   Dong, Zhongdong ^a   Cui, Dangqun ^a   Chen, Feng ^a  

^a HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b High and New Technology Research Center   (China)

Author keywords

Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.); GWAS; QTL mapping; Superior allele; Wheat 90K SNP assay; Yield related traits

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CHINA; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WHEAT;

ALLELES; CHINA; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; TRITICUM;

EID: 85014110033     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12690     Document Type: Article

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