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Heading-date in cereals is the final result of a number of interacting characters that include vernalization requirement, photoperiod sensitivity, and earliness per se. Progress in developing adapted varieties may be achieved by determining the chromosomal locations of genes controlling these characters. Nineteen doubled-haploid (DH) lines from the Dicktoo×Morex mapping population were phenotyped in controlled- environment photoperiod experiments to determine the role of two previously detected QTLs on the developmental patterns of barley. The QTLs are hypothesised to represent the effects of the Ppd and Sh2 loci on chromosomes 2 (2H) and 7 (5H), respectively. Alleles at the Ppd locus were found to be vary in response to photoperiod duration. Vernalization had some effect on alleles at both loci. The presence of early and late- flowering transgressive segregants in this mapping population can be explained by interactions between the Ppd and Sh2 loci. The Ppd and Sh2 loci are hypothesised to be homoeologous with the Ppd and Vrn1 loci of wheat.
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Received: 1 August 1996 / Accepted: 15 November 1996
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Karsai, I., Mészáros, K., Hayes, P. et al. Effects of loci on chromosomes 2 (2H) and 7 (5H) on developmental patterns in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) under different photoperiod regimes. Theor Appl Genet 94, 612–618 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001220050458
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001220050458