Characterization of the Common Genetic Basis Underlying Seed Hilum Size, Yield, and Quality Traits in Soybean.

ABSTRACT: Developing high yielding cultivars with outstanding quality traits are perpetual objectives throughout crop breeding operations. Confoundingly, both of these breeding objectives typically involve working with complex quantitative traits that can be affected by genetic and environmental factors. Establishing correlations of these complex traits with more easily identifiable and highly heritable traits can simplify breeding processes. In this study, two parental soybean genotypes contrasting in seed hilum size, yield, and seed quality, as well as 175 F₉ recombinant inbred lines (RILs) derived from these parents, were grown in 3 years. The h² _b of four hilum size, two quality and two yield traits, ranged from 0.72 to 0.87. The four observed hilu

SUBMITTER: Zhao Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7947287 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature