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Breeding by Design for Functional Rice with Genome Editing Technologies
Published on: January 3, 2025
[QTL mapping and interaction analysis of genotype x environment (Fe2+ -concentrations ) for mesocotyl length in rice
You-Nan Ouyang1, Qiu-Ying Zhang, Ke-Qin Zhang
1State Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, National Center of Rice Improvement, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 310006, China. ouyangyounan@hotmail.com
Abstract:
A recombinant inbred lines (RILs) population derived from a cross between Zhenshan97B and Miyang46 was used for detecting QTLs with additive effects and additive-by-additive epistasis for rice mesocotyl length. A linkage map consisting of 207 DNA markers,distributing on the 12 chromosomes of rice,was employed for QTL mapping by using software QTL Mapper 1.6 of mixed linear model. Rice mesocotyl length under germination conditions with 4 different FeSO4 concentrations (0, 1.79, 7.16, 14.32 mmol/L) was measured 7 days after planting. A total of 6 QTLs with significant additive effects on chromosome 1, 5 and 9, with variance explained of 3.5%-11.4%, eleven QTLs with significant additive x additive epistatic effects on chromosome 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 were detected, with variance explained of 4.5%-8.1%. In addition, one QTL for environmental interaction (Fe2+ -concentrations) was detected.
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