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GrainGenes Reference Report: PEU-04-207

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Reference
PEU-04-207
Title
Detection of QTL for agronomic traits in an advanced backcross population with introgressions from wild barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum)
Contained in
Reference(2004) Genetic variation for plant breeding. Proceedings of the 17th EUCARPIA General Congress, Tulln, Austria, 8-11 September 2004.
Year
2004
Pages
207-211
Author
Korff Mv
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Abstract
The objective of this study was to map QTL for yield, and yield determining traits in a BC2DH population derived from a cross between the spring barley cultivar 'Thuringia' and the wild barley accession ISR42-8 (H. vulgare subsp. spontaneum). Phenotypic data for the traits: time to heading, plant height, ears per m2, thousand kernel weight and yield were recorded at four locations in Germany. The BC2DH population was genotyped with 69 SSR markers. We detected QTL for all analysed traits except for thousand kernel weight. QTL clustered at certain genomic regions indicating that these may be domestication related loci with strong effects. Favourable exotic alleles were detected for all traits including yield. We could thus show that QTL mapping in advanced backcross populations can uncover 'cryptic' beneficial exotic alleles. These QTL are the basis for unravelling the genetic basis of yield and may eventually help breeding new cultivars
Keyword
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agronomic characteristics
allele
backcross
barley
crop yield
cross
cultivar
domestication
genetic mapping
genetic marker
genetic variation
heading
heading date
introgression
locus
mapping
phenotype
plant breeding
plant height
quantitative trait loci
seed weight
spikes
spring
yield components

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