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Comparative study of QTLs for agronomic traits of riceOriza sativa L.) between salt stress and nonstress environment

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Genotype-by-environment interactions (GxE) are commonly observed for quantitative traits. In the present study, a doubled haploid (DH) population and its genetic linkage map were used to comparatively study QTLs in salt stress and nonstress environments. A total of 24 QTLs were detected for five agronomic traits, which were distributed on all the chromosomes except 9 and 11. Under the salt stress, nine (37.5%) QTLs were detected, including one for 1 000-grain weight (GW), two for heading date (HD), one for plant height (PH), two for grains per panicle (GPP), and three for effective tillers (ET), while in the nonstress environment, 17 QTLs (70.8%) were detected, including five for GW, six for HD, three for PH, two for GPP, and one for ET. Two QTLs (8.3%) were consistently detected in both environments. One was identified on chromosome 4 for HD and the other on Chr.6 for GPP. Furthermore, three regions carrying multiple QTLs were identified on chromosomes 1, 4 and 8 respectively. For example, on chromosome 8, three QTLs for HD, GW and PH, respectively were identified between RG885-GA408 in nonstress environment, but not in the stress environment. The comparative study of QTLs detected in extremely different (salt stress and nonstress) environments revealed that there existed several QTLs for important agronomic traits on chromosome 8 which were affected significantly by salt stress.

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    Jiming Gong, Xianwu Zheng, Baoxing Du, Shouyi Chen, Lihuang Zhu & Ping He

  2. Chinese Rice Research Institute, 310006, Hangzhou, China

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Gong, J., Zheng, X., Du, B. et al. Comparative study of QTLs for agronomic traits of riceOriza sativa L.) between salt stress and nonstress environment. Sci. China Ser. C.-Life Sci. 44, 73–82 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02882075

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