Dissecting Vegetative Period Into Its Phenotypic and Genotypic Components Allows Environment-Specific Breeding in Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik).

ABSTRACT: In legumes, flowering time is regulated by genes responsive to temperature and photoperiod, presenting challenges for high-latitude lentil producers who must adapt cultivars to short growing seasons and extended daylight hours. Therefore, prolonged vegetative periods are favored in those areas. To address this, we studied a recombinant inbred line (RIL) population, derived from a cross between the adapted cultivar CDC-Milestone and the non-adapted line ILL8006, to investigate phenology-related traits under long-day conditions in western Canada. Significant variation in days to emergence (DTE), days to flowering (DTF), and days to pod maturity (DTM) enabled analysis of the vegetative (VegP) and reproductive (RepP) periods within the population. We constructed a high-density genetic linkage

SUBMITTER: Osuna-Caballero S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12746221 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature