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Co-location of seed oil content, seed hull content and seed coat color QTL in three different environments in Brassica napus L.

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Increasing seed oil content is an important breeding goal for Brassica napus L. (B. napus). The identification of quantitative trait loci (QTL) for seed oil content and related traits is important for efficient selection of B. napus cultivars with high seed oil content. To get better knowledge on these traits, a molecular marker linkage map for B. napus was constructed with a recombinant inbred lines (RIL) population. The length of the map was 1,589 cM with 451 markers distributed over 25 linkage groups. QTL for seed oil content, seed hull content and seed coat color in three environments were detected by composite interval mapping (CIM) tests. Eleven QTL accounted for 5.19–13.57% of the variation for seed oil content. Twelve QTL associated with seed hull content were identified with contribution ranging from 5.80 to 22.71% and four QTL for seed coat color accounted for 5.23–15.99% of the variation. It is very interesting to found that co-localization between QTL for the three traits were found on N8. These results indicated the possibility to combine favorable alleles at different QTL to increase seed oil content, as well as to combine information about the relationship between seed oil content and other traits.

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Abbreviations

QTL:

Quantitative trait loci

RIL:

Recombinant inbred lines

SRAP:

Sequence related amplified polymorphism

SSR:

Simple sequence repeat

AFLP:

Amplified fragment length polymorphism

TRAP:

Target region amplified polymorphism

cM:

Centimorgans

CIM:

Composite interval mapping

PCR:

Polymerase chain reaction

DNA:

Deoxyribonucleic acid

CTAB:

Cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide

LOD:

Log likelihood ratio

OC:

Seed oil content

HC:

Seed hull content

SC:

Seed coat color

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Financial support from the State “973” Project (2006CB101604) of China and a grant (30330400) from the Natural Science Foundation of China.

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Yan, X.Y., Li, J.N., Fu, F.Y. et al. Co-location of seed oil content, seed hull content and seed coat color QTL in three different environments in Brassica napus L.. Euphytica 170, 355–364 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-009-0006-5

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