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QTL analysis in Barley Across Environments in Egypt

Research Authors
Mohammed Abdel Aziz Sayed
Ashraf Nor El-sadek
Bakry Ahmed Bakry
Mohamed Badry Ali
Jens Leon, and
Emad. Mohamed Salem
Research Abstract

BARLEY is one of the most important cereal crops worldwide. An advanced backcross doubled haploid mapping population was grown in four locations across Egypt (Assuit, Al Wady Al Asuity, Matrouh and Nubaria). The population included 301 BC2DH lines derived from crossing between a German elite cultivar of H. vulgare ssp. vulgare ‘Scarlett’ with an exotic accession of H. vulgare ssp. spontaneum ‘ISR42-8’. A linkage map including 371 different types of genetic markers was used to perform QTL analysis. We detected 56 putative QTLs for traits of interest. In addition, the study identified four markers with marker main and marker × environment interaction effects. The exotic alleles of those four markers could be responsible for increasing their traits across environments. Furthermore, eight markers showed pleiotropic effect across locations. Some DH lines performed better than their parents and check varieties in each environment and across four environments as well. These results might be useful in MAS for barley breeding programs in Egypt.

Research Department
Research Journal
Egyptian Journal of agronomy
Research Publisher
National Information and Documentaion Center
Research Rank
2
Research Vol
Vol.39, No.1
Research Website
http://agro.journals.ekb.eg/article_3230.html
Research Year
2017
Research Pages
pp.53- 70