New Strategies and Tools in Quantitative Genetics: How to Go from the Phenotype to the Genotype

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 68, Issue , 2017, Pages 435-455

  Bazakos, Christos ^a   Hanemian, Mathieu ^a   Trontin, Charlotte ^a   Jiménez Gómez, José M ^a   Loudet, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Genetic architecture; GWAS; Phenotype; QTL; RIL

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 85018950575     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042916-040820     Document Type: Review

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