Analysis of contributors to grain yield in wheat at the individual quantitative trait locus level |
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| Authors: | Da‐Bin Hou Guo‐Yue Chen Zhi‐En Pu Wei Li Xiu‐Jin Lan Qian‐Tao Jiang Ya‐Xi Liu Mei Deng Yu‐Ming Wei |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China;2. Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China;3. Agronomy College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China |
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| Abstract: | In wheat, strong genetic correlations have been found between grain yield (GY) and tiller number per plant (TN), fertile spikelet number per spike (FSN), kernel number per spike (KN) and thousand‐kernel weight (TKW). To investigate their genetic relationships at the individual quantitative trait locus (QTL) level, we performed both normal and multivariate conditional QTL analysis based on two recombinant inbred lines (RILs) populations. A total of 79 and 48 normal QTLs were identified in the International Triticeae Mapping Initiative (ITMI)/SHW‐L1 × Chuanmai 32 (SC) populations, respectively, as well as 55 and 35 conditional QTLs. Thirty‐two QTL clusters in the ITMI population and 18 QTL clusters in the SC population explained 0.9%–46.2% of phenotypic variance for two to eight traits. A comparison between the normal and conditional QTL mapping analyses indicated that FSN made the smallest contribution to GY among the four GY components that were considered at the QTL level. The effects of TN, KN and TKW on GY were stronger at the QTL level. |
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| Keywords: | grain yield normal and conditional mapping quantitative trait locus wheat |
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