Two novel QTLs regulate internode elongation in deepwater rice during the early vegetative stage.

ABSTRACT: Deepwater rice possesses internode elongation ability to avoid drowning under deepwater conditions. Previous studies identified three QTLs regulating internode elongation ability on chromosomes 1, 3 and 12 using different populations. However, these QTLs only induce internode elongation in response to deepwater conditions from the 7-leaf stage and not during the early leaf stage. In this study, we detected two novel QTLs, qTIL2 and qTIL4 regulating deepwater response at the early leaf stage using an F(2) population derived from the cross between NIL1-3-12 carrying the three QTLs regulating deepwater response in T65 (O. sativa ssp. japonica) genetic background and C9285 (O. sativa ssp. indica, deepwater rice). Plants of the BC(2)F(2) population derived from NIL1-3-12/C9285 and the RILs of T

SUBMITTER: Nagai K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3405962 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature