Estudo da herança dos caracteres stay-green, produção e seus componentes em milho utilizando o delineamento III e mapeamento de QTL / Inheritance study of stay-green, yield and its components in maize using the design III and QTL mapping

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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Maize is one of the most important agricultural activities in Brazil. The country is the third largest world producer and the yield rose from 1800 kg ha-1 to 3000 kg ha-1 in the last 15 years. The grain yield and drought tolerance are complex traits, difficult to select. A possibility to increase the efficiency of breeding programs that aims to improve the grain yield and drought tolerance would be through indirect selection for traits related to them as the stay-green and yield components. The aim of this work was to study the characters stay-green, yield and its components in maize in order to gather information on the inheritance of these characters. For this purpose it was used a population obtained by crossing the lines L-14-04 B and L-08-05 F, contrasting to several traits. Progenies F2:3 from this cross were derived from backcrosses to the parental lines forming two sets of backcross progeny with 250 each. These progenies were evaluated in up to six environments according to the simple lattice design 10x10 for grain yield (PG), and their components: ear length (CE), ear diameter (DE), number of rows per ear (NFI), number of grains per row (NGF), weight of 500 grains (P500) and the drought tolerance related trait stay-green (SG). A linkage map obtained with 177 SSR markers were used to map QTL for these traits in each backcross population through the methodology of composite interval mapping expanded to multiple environments (mCIM). The additive and dominance genetic effects for each mapped QTL were obtained by means of contrasts between effects of QTL mapped in the two backcross populations. Two hundred seventeen QTL were mapped for seven traits evaluated, some of these are of mayor effect, stable through the various environments and co-located with QTL for other characteristics, what make them good candidates for molecular marker assisted selection. The large number of QTL mapped in this study confirms not only the complexity of these characters but also the detection power of the mapping method (mCIM) and of the design used in this study (design III).

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design iii qtl mapping grain yield hereditariedade melhoramento genético vegetal milho. maize. stay-green grãos - produção yield components mapeamento genético

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