Teosinte-Derived Advanced Backcross Population Harbors Genomic Regions for Grain Yield Attributing Traits in Maize.

ABSTRACT: Maize is a highly versatile crop holding significant importance in global food, feed and nutritional security. Grain yield is a complex trait and difficult to improve without targeting the improvement of grain yield attributing traits, which are relatively less complex in nature. Hence, considering the erosion in genetic diversity, there is an urgent need to use wild relatives for genetic diversification and unravel the genomic regions for grain yield attributing traits in maize. Thus, the current study aimed to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) linked with grain yield and yield attributing traits. Two BC₂F₂ populations developed from the cross of LM13 with Zea parviglumis (population 1) and LM14 with Zea parviglumis (population 2) were genotyped a

SUBMITTER: Kumar P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11476406 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature