Abstract
Falling number (FN) is an inner quality trait in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) ultimately determining the end use of wheat kernels. In this 3-year study, 171 recombinant inbred lines derived from Chuannong17 (a 1BL/1RS tranlocation parent) × Mianyang11 were planted in the Sichuan Basin, a rainfed agricultural area in southwestern China. In this climate, we found that FN had significant differences between 1BL/1RS translocation lines and non-1BL/1RS translocation lines in two of the 3 years and the heavy fluctuation of rainfall and temperature resulted in decreasing FN in grain filling period. We used 191 simple sequence repeats markers to construct a genetic linkage map and then detected 11 additive effect FN quantitative trait loci (QTL) on chromosomes 2B, 3D, 4A, 4D, 6B and 7D, explaining 5.48–31.91% of the phenotypic variance. The FN QTL on chromosomes 4A, 4D and 6B were major or stable and detected at least in 2 years, whereas the Qfn.sicau-3D.1 in 2015 year explained the maximum phenotypic variation (about 31.91%). Furthermore, FN QTLs additive and epistatic effects as well as their interactions with environment were estimated by a mixed linear model approach. We found that the additive effect QTLs had no significant additive × environment interaction, while the paired QTLs had significant additive × additive epistatic effects however none had a significant additive × additive epistasis × environment interaction effect, excluding the paired QTLs Qfn.sicau-3B/Qfn.sicau-5B.
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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31271722). We express our gratitude to excellent materials and all necessary experimental instruments provided by Prof. Z. L. Ren.
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Tang, H., Wang, H., He, M. et al. QTL analysis for wheat falling number in a recombinant inbred line population segregated with 1BL/1RS translocation in a rainfed agricultural area of China. Euphytica 213, 235 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-017-2028-8
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