Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica ›› 2022, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (6): 115-123. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20193135

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Identification of QTLs for Length and Area of Three Leaves Near the Ear in Maize

WANG Xintao1, YANG Qing2, LI Baoye1, DAI Ziju3, HAO Junjie1,   

  1. 1 Plant Protection Institute,Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Zhengzhou 450002,China
    2 Sesame Research Center,Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Zhengzhou 450002,China
    3 Henan Academy of Crop Molecular Breeding,Zhengzhou 450002,China
  • Received:2022-06-21 Published:2022-12-28

Abstract:

Leaf length and leaf area are two important agronomic traits,in order to study the genetic mechanism of leaf length and area of three leaves near the ear in maize,a recombinant inbred line(RIL)population(241 lines)derived from Zheng 58 and D863F was used for QTL mapping analysis under spring sowing and summer sowing in 2018 and 2019,respectively.In RILs population, leaf length and area of three leaves near the ear showed continuous variations with a normal distribution and belonged to typical quantitative trait, and significant correlation was found among the traits, the heritability of the six traits was 88.04%, 88.45%, 87.86%, 85.04%, 85.27% and 85.73%, respectively.In total,23 QTLs were detected in two years.The number of QTLs for leaf length and leaf area were 14 and 9,respectively.These QTLs with phenotypic variance explained(PVE)ranging from 5.84% to 17.81% were detected on chromosome 1,2,4,5,6 and 8.Among them,only three QTLs(qFirLL1-2,qFirLL5-1 and qSecLL1-2)for leaf length and two QTLs(qFirLA2-1 and qSecLA2-1)for leaf area were identified in both environments(spring and summer sowing),the remaining QTLs can only be detected separately in spring sowing or summer sowing environments.The major QTLs controlling six traits were detected on chromosome 2(bnlg1316—bnlg1141)and 5(umc1591—umc2298),which explained phenotypic variation ranging from 6.42% to 17.81%;These two marker intervals are important for regulating the length and area of three leaves near the ear, and might contain key genes regulating leaf traits.

Key words: Maize, Three leaves near the ear, Leaf length, Leaf area, QTL

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WANG Xintao, YANG Qing, LI Baoye, DAI Ziju, HAO Junjie. Identification of QTLs for Length and Area of Three Leaves Near the Ear in Maize[J]. Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica, 2022, 37(6): 115-123. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20193135.

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