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Drought susceptibility of modern rice varieties: an effect of linkage of drought tolerance with undesirable traits.
Scientific reports - 13 Oct 2015
Vikram Prashant, Swamy B P Mallikarjuna, Dixit Shalabh, Singh Renu, Singh Bikram P, Miro Berta, Kohli Ajay, Henry Amelia, Singh N K, Kumar Arvind
Abstract excerpt
Green Revolution (GR) rice varieties are high yielding but typically drought sensitive. This is partly due to the tight linkage between the loci governing plant height and drought tolerance. This linkage is illustrated here through characterization of qDTY1.1, a QTL for grain yield under drought that co-segregates with the GR gene sd1 for semi-dwarf plant height. We report that the loss of the qDTY1.1 allele...
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