Selection tools for oil content and fatty acid composition in safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.).

ABSTRACT: Agricultural expansion requires the deployment of stress-tolerant crops like safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.). In safflower breeding, oil improvement in early generations requires indirect selection through simply inherited traits. The oil quality is mostly related to the fatty acid profile, which is determined by the OL locus. The aim of this research was to identify simple easy-to-measure traits that indirectly explain oil content variation and its interaction with yield components, and also to generate an effective tool for genotyping the OL locus. A field experiment with F₅ and pure lines was carried out to correlate the oil content with 18 traits including yield components, and phenological and morphological characteristics. KASP technology using primers designed

SUBMITTER: Cerrotta A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7878940 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature