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GENETICS
卷 183, 期 4, 页码 1507-1523出版社
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.105429
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- Generation Challenge Program
Under drought, substantial genotype-environment (G x E) interactions impede breeding progress for yield. Identifying genetic Controls associated with yield response is confounded by poor genetic correlations across testing environments. Part of this problem is related to our inability to account for the interplay of genetic controls, physiological traits, and environmental conditions throughout the crop cycle. We propose a modeling approach to bridge this gene-to-phenotype gap. For maize under drought, we simulated the impact of quantitative trait loci (QTL) controlling two key processes (leaf and silk elongation) that influence crop growth, water use, and grain yield. Substantial G x E interaction for yield was simulated for hypothetical recombinant inbred lines (RILs) across different seasonal patterns of drought. QTL that accelerated leaf elongation caused art increase in crop leaf area and yield in well-watered or preflowering water deficit conditions, but a reduction in yield under terminal stresses (as such leafy genotypes prematurely exhausted the water supply). The QTL impact on yield was substantially enhanced by including pleiotropic effects of these QTL on silk elongation and on consequent grain set. The simulations obtained illustrated the difficulty of interpreting the genetic control of yield for genotypes influenced only by the additive effects of QTL associated with leaf and silk growth. The results highlight the potential of integrative modeling for gene-to-phenotype prediction and for exploiting G x E interactions for complex traits such as drought tolerance.
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