Toward Coalescing Gene Expression and Function with QTLs of Water-Deficit Stress in Cotton.

ABSTRACT: Cotton exhibits moderately high vegetative tolerance to water-deficit stress but lint production is restricted by the available rainfed and irrigation capacity. We have described the impact of water-deficit stress on the genetic and metabolic control of fiber quality and production. Here we examine the association of tentative consensus sequences (TCs) derived from various cotton tissues under irrigated and water-limited conditions with stress-responsive QTLs. Three thousand sixteen mapped sequence-tagged-sites were used as anchored targets to examine sequence homology with 15,784 TCs to test the hypothesis that putative stress-responsive genes will map within QTLs associated with stress-related phenotypic variation more frequently than with other genomic regions not associated with these

SUBMITTER: Kebede H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4488579 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature