Epistasis is a commonly observed genetic phenomenon and an important source of variation of complex traits, which could maintain additive variance and therefore assure the long-term genetic gain in breeding. Inclusive composite interval mapping (ICIM) is able to identify epistatic quantitative trait loci (QTLs) no matter whether the two interacting QTLs have any additive effects. In this articl...

Water availability is a major limiting factor for crop production, making drought adaptation and its many component traits a desirable attribute of plant cultivars. Previous studies in cereal crops indicate that root traits expressed at early plant developmental stages, such as seminal root angle and root number, are associated with water extraction at different depths. Here, we conducted the f...

To study the D-genome of the wild wheat relative Aegilops tauschii Cosson at the hexaploid level, we developed a synthetic doubled-haploid (DH) hexaploid wheat population, SynDH3. This population was derived from the spontaneous chromosome doubling of triploid F1 hybrid plants obtained from a cross between Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccon PI377655 and A. tauschii ssp. strangulata AS66 × ssp. tau...

Silique length (SL) and seed weight (SW) are important yield-associated traits in rapeseed (Brassica napus). Although many quantitative trait loci (QTL) for SL and SW have been identified in B. napus, comparative analysis for those QTL is seldom performed. In the present study, 20 and 21 QTL for SL and SW were identified in doubled haploid (DH) and DH-derived reconstructed F2 populations in rap...

Haploids and doubled haploid (DH) inbred lines have become an invaluable tool for maize genetic research and hybrid breeding, but the genetic basis of in vivo induction of maternal haploids is still unknown. This is the first study reporting comparative quantitative trait locus (QTL) analyses of this trait in maize. We determined haploid induction rates (HIR) in testcrosses of a total of 1061 p...

Of the Capsicum peppers (Capsicum spp.), cultivated C. annuum is the most commercially important, but has lacked an intraspecific linkage map based on sequence-specific PCR markers in accord with haploid chromosome numbers. We constructed a linkage map of pepper using a doubled haploid (DH) population derived from a cross between two C. annuum genotypes, a bell-type cultivar 'California Wonder'...

Abstract The aims of this study were to estimate the diversity doubled haploid population winter oilseed rape ( Brassica napus L.) in terms yield, yield structure and seed colour, determine correlation between studied traits their heritability, select best yellow-seeded genotypes. We 44 haploids, obtained from F 1 hybrids a cross black-seeded DH H 2 -26 line Z-114 line, as well parental forms. ...

Doubled haploid (DH) technology based on in vivo induction has gradually become the key modern maize breeding. The ability of maternal germplasm to be induced into haploids, inducibility, varies among genotypes. To dissect genetic basis inducibility (MHI), an F2 population derived from inbred lines B73 and Zheng58 was used for single environment QTL analysis by interaction analysis. mapping gen...

Doubled haploid technology has become an increasingly popular and important tool for developing new maize lines (Zea mays L.) breeding. Conventional breeding requires repeated self-pollination about six to ten generations obtain homozygous inbred lines. Completely can be produced in only two by using doubled technology. In vivo induction of the maternal method was used production 32 different d...