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PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 242, Issue -, Pages 300-309Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2015.09.022
Keywords
Heterosis; Meta-analysis; QTL; QTLome; Yield; Zea mays
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- Semillas Fito S.A (Barcelona, Spain)
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The genetic control of yield and related traits in maize has been addressed by many quantitative trait locus (QTL) studies, which have produced a wealth of QTL information, also known as QTLome. In this study, we assembled a yield QTLome database and carried out QTL meta-analysis based on 44 published studies, representing 32 independent mapping populations and 49 parental lines. A total of 808 unique QTLs were condensed to 84 meta-QTLs and were projected on the 10 maize chromosomes. Seventy-four percent of QTLs showed a proportion of phenotypic variance explained (PVE) smaller than 10% confirming the high genetic complexity of grain yield. Yield QTLome projection on the genetic map suggested pericentromeric enrichment of QTLs. Conversely, pericentromeric depletion of QTLs was observed when the physical map was considered, suggesting gene density as the main driver of yield QTL distribution on chromosomes. Dominant and overdominant yield QTLs did not distribute differently from additive effect QTLs. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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