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Gene actions of QTLs affecting several agronomic traits resolved in a recombinant inbred rice population and two backcross populations

Gene actions of QTLs affecting several agronomic traits resolved in a recombinant inbred rice... To understand the types of gene action controlling seven quantitative traits in rice, we carried out quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping in order to distinguish between the main-effect QTLs (M-QTLs) and digenic epistatic QTLs (E-QTLs) responsible for the trait performance of 254 recombinant inbred lines (RILs) from rice varieties Lemont / Teqing and two backcross hybrid (BCF 1 ) populations derived from these RILs. We identified 44 M-QTL and 95 E-QTL pairs in the RI and BCF 1 populations as having significant effects on the mean values and mid-parental heterosis of heading date, plant height, flag leaf length, flag leaf width, panicle length, spikelet number and spikelet fertility. The E-QTLs detected collectively explained a larger portion of the total phenotypic variation than the M-QTLs in both the RI and BCF 1 populations. In both BCF 1 populations, over-dominant (or under-dominant) loci were more important than additive and complete or partially dominant loci for M-QTLs and E-QTL pairs, thereby supporting prior findings that overdominance resulting from epistatic loci are the primary genetic basis of inbreeding depression and heterosis in rice. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png TAG Theoretical and Applied Genetics Springer Journals

Gene actions of QTLs affecting several agronomic traits resolved in a recombinant inbred rice population and two backcross populations

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2005 by Springer-Verlag
Subject
LifeSciences
ISSN
0040-5752
eISSN
1432-2242
DOI
10.1007/s00122-004-1890-7
pmid
15647921
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Abstract

To understand the types of gene action controlling seven quantitative traits in rice, we carried out quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping in order to distinguish between the main-effect QTLs (M-QTLs) and digenic epistatic QTLs (E-QTLs) responsible for the trait performance of 254 recombinant inbred lines (RILs) from rice varieties Lemont / Teqing and two backcross hybrid (BCF 1 ) populations derived from these RILs. We identified 44 M-QTL and 95 E-QTL pairs in the RI and BCF 1 populations as having significant effects on the mean values and mid-parental heterosis of heading date, plant height, flag leaf length, flag leaf width, panicle length, spikelet number and spikelet fertility. The E-QTLs detected collectively explained a larger portion of the total phenotypic variation than the M-QTLs in both the RI and BCF 1 populations. In both BCF 1 populations, over-dominant (or under-dominant) loci were more important than additive and complete or partially dominant loci for M-QTLs and E-QTL pairs, thereby supporting prior findings that overdominance resulting from epistatic loci are the primary genetic basis of inbreeding depression and heterosis in rice.

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TAG Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Journals

Published: Feb 1, 2005

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