Article
QTL mapping in white spruce: gene maps and genomic regions underlying adaptive traits across pedigrees, years and environments.
BMC genomics - 10 Mar 2011
Pelgas Betty, Bousquet Jean, Meirmans Patrick G, Ritland Kermit, Isabel Nathalie
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The genomic architecture of bud phenology and height growth remains poorly known in most forest trees. In non model species, QTL studies have shown limited application because most often QTL data could not be validated from one experiment to another. The aim of our study was to overcome this limitation by basing QTL detection on the construction of genetic maps highly-enriched in gene markers, and by...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Chromosome Mapping
- Crosses, Genetic
- DNA, Plant
- Environment
- Genes, Plant
- Genome, Plant
- Pedigree
- Phenotype
- Photoperiod
- Picea
