Genetic analysis of three maize husk traits by QTL mapping in a maize-teosinte population

文献类型： 外文期刊

第一作者： Zhang, Xiaolei

作者： Zhang, Xiaolei;Zhang, Ruiying;Lu, Ming;Liu, Wenguo;Xia, Aiai;He, Yan;Xu, Tao;Cui, Zhenhai

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关键词： Maize; Teosinte; Husk; QTL

期刊名称：BMC GENOMICS （ 影响因子：3.594； 五年影响因子：4.093 ）

ISSN： 1471-2164

年卷期： 2021 年 22 卷 1 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Background The maize husk consists of numerous leafy layers and plays vital roles in protecting the ear from pathogen infection and dehydration. Teosinte, the wild ancestor of maize, has about three layers of small husk outer covering the ear. Although several quantitative trait loci (QTL) underlying husk morphology variation have been reported, the genetic basis of husk traits between teosinte and maize remains unclear. Results A linkage population including 191 BC2F8 inbred lines generated from the maize line Mo17 and the teosinte line X26-4 was used to identify QTL associated with three husk traits: i.e., husk length (HL), husk width (HW) and the number of husk layers (HN). The best linear unbiased predictor (BLUP) depicted wide phenotypic variation and high heritability of all three traits. The HL exhibited greater correlation with HW than HN. A total of 4 QTLs were identified including 1, 1, 2, which are associated with HL, HW and HN, respectively. The proportion of phenotypic variation explained by these QTLs was 9.6, 8.9 and 8.1% for HL, HN and HW, respectively. Conclusions The QTLs identified in this study will pave a path to explore candidate genes regulating husk growth and development, and benefit the molecular breeding program based on molecular marker-assisted selection to cultivate maize varieties with an ideal husk morphology.

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