Abstract
ABSTRACTFlowering time and plant height are two critical determinants of yield potential in barley (Hordeum vulgare). Although their role as key traits, a comprehensive understanding of the genetic complexity of flowering time and plant height regulation in barley is still lacking. Through a double round-robin population originated from the crossings of 23 diverse parental inbred lines, we aimed to determine the variance components in the regulation of flowering time and plant height in barley as well as identify new genetic variants by single and multi-population quantitative trait loci (QTL) analyses and allele mining. Despite similar genotypic variance, we observed higher environmental variance components for plant height than flowering time. Furthermore, we detected one new QTL for flowering time and two new QTL for plant height. Finally, we identified a new functional allelic variant of the main regulatory genePpd-H1. Our results show that the genetic architecture of flowering time and plant height might be more complex than reported earlier and that a number of undetected, small effect or low frequency, genetic variants underlie the control of these two traits.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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