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EUPHYTICA
Volume 121, Issue 2, Pages 163-172Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012263413418
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cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L. and G.; barbadense L.); fiber quality properties; quantitative trait loci (QTLs); random amplified polymorphic DNAs (RAPDs); restriction fragment lengthpolymorphisms (RFLPs)
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Cotton (Gossypium spp) is the world's leading natural fiber crop. Genetic manipulation continues to play a key role in the improvement of fiber quality properties. By use of DNA-based molecular markers and a polymorphic mapping population derived from an interspecific cross between TM-1 (G. hirsutum) and 3-79 (G. barbadense), thirteen quantitative trait loci (QTLs) controlling fiber quality properties were identified in 3-79, an extra long staple (ELS) cotton. Four QTLs influenced bundle fiber strength, three influenced fiber length, and six influenced fiber fineness. These QTLs were located on different chromosomes or linkage groups and collectively explained 30% to 60% of the total phenotypic variance for each fiber quality property in the F-2 population. The effects and modes of action for the individual QTLs were characterized with 3-79 alleles in TM-1 genetic background. The results indicated more recessive than dominant, with much less additive effect in the gene mode. Transgressive segregation was observed for fiber fineness that could be beneficial to improvement of this trait. Molecular markers linked to fiber quality QTLs would be most effective in marker-assisted selection (MAS) of these recessive alleles in cotton breeding programs.
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