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BREEDING SCIENCE
Volume 55, Issue 3, Pages 343-347Publisher
JAPANESE SOC BREEDING
DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.55.343
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adventitious root; flooding; quantitative trait loci; tropical maize; waterlogging
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Quantitative trait loci (QTLs) controlling adventitious root formation (ARF) on the soil surface were evaluated under flooding conditions in I 10 individuals of an F-2 population derived from a cross between a dent inbred line 'B64' and a tropical Caribbean flint inbred line 'Na4'. The ARF capacity of seedlings suggested the existence of continuous variation in the F2 population. The QTLs for ARF were located on chromosomes 3 (bin 3.07-8), 7 (bin 7.04-5) and 8 (bin 8.05). Alleles of line Na4, with a high capacity for ARF, increased ARF in the case of all the QTLs. By comparing chromosome positions of ARF loci in the B64 x Na4 population with those in a B64 x teosinte (Zea mays ssp. huehuetenangensis) population, the region conditioning ARF on chromosome 8 was consistent across the two populations. In the present study, overlap between the QTLs for ARF in the B64 x Na4 cross and QTLs for root traits measured in aerated hydroponic culture was also observed as reported in other mapping populations.
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