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QTL epistasis plays a role of homeostasis on heading date in rice.
Scientific reports - 3 Jan 2024
Huang Lilong, Tang Jichun, Zhu Bihuang, Chen Guodong, Chen Leyi, Bu Suhong, Zhu Haitao, Liu Zupei, Li Zhan, Meng Lijun, Liu Guifu, Wang Shaokui
Abstract excerpt
If there was no gene interaction, the gene aggregation effect would increase infinitely with the increase of gene number. Epistasis avoids the endless accumulation of gene effects, playing a role of homeostasis. To confirm the role, QTL epistases were analyzed by four single-segment substitution lines with heading date QTLs in this paper. We found that QTLs of three positive effects and one negative effect...
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