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Antagonistic pleiotropy at the stem solidness 1 locus balances wheat stem architecture and yield components under terminal drought.
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 16 Aug 2026
Ntawuguranayo Simeon, Sadeh Roy, Sela Hanan, Herrmann Ittai, Peleg Zvi, Ben-David Roi
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KEY MESSAGE: Stem structural investment enhances grain size and yield under drought, challenging the traditional view of vegetative-reproductive trade-offs. Antagonistic pleiotropy at the SSt1 locus reveals a genetic constraint between stem diameter and solidness. Incorporating genotype-by-environment into genomic selection models improves prediction accuracy by 46.5%. Terminal drought is the primary...
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