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Because perennial ryegrass is propagated by seed, seed yield is particularly important for commercial breeding of ryegrass. Generative tillering is one of the phenotypic traits that determines seed yield potential. Associations between generative and vegetative tiller numbers and sequence polymorphisms in five perennial ryegrass genes with putative function in plant architecture were estimated in this study. One SNP in the LpSHOOT1 gene was associated with generative tiller number while vegetative tiller weight was associated with two alternative SNPs in the same LpSHOOT1 gene.
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This study was funded by the Research Council of Lithuania, grant No. MIP-032/2012 (FUMAG).
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Statkevičiūtė, G., Aleliūnas, A., Kemešytė, V., Brazauskas, G. (2016). Association Analysis of Candidate Genes with Tillering in Perennial Ryegrass. In: Roldán-Ruiz, I., Baert, J., Reheul, D. (eds) Breeding in a World of Scarcity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28932-8_17
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