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Quantitative trait loci mapping for yield and its components by using two immortalized populations of a heterotic hybrid in Gossypium hirsutum L.

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Quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping provides a powerful tool for unraveling the genetic basis of yield and yield components as well as heterosis in upland cotton. In this research, a molecular linkage map of Xiangzamian 2 (Gossypium hirsutum L.)-derived recombinant inbred lines (RILs) was reconstructed based on increased expressed sequence tag–simple sequence repeat markers. Both the RILs and immortalized F2s (IF2) developed through intermating between RILs were grown under multiple environments. Yield and yield components including seed-cotton yield, lint yield, bolls/plant, boll weight, lint percentage, seed index, lint index and fruit branch number were measured and their QTL were repeatedly identified across environments by the composite interval mapping (CIM) method. From a total of 111 non-redundant QTL, 23 were detected in both two populations. In the meantime, multi-marker joint analyses showed that 16 of these QTL had significant environmental interaction. QTL for correlated traits tended to be collocated and most of the QTL for seed-cotton yield and lint yield were associated with QTL for at least one yield component, consistent with the results observed in correlation analyses. For many QTL with significant additive effects, positive alleles from CRI12, the inferior parent with lower yield performance, were associated with trait improvement. Trait performance of IF2s and the large number of QTL with positive dominant effects implied that dominance plays an important role in the genetic basis of heterosis in Xiangzamian 2 and that non-additive inheritance is also an important genetic mode for lint percentage in the population. These QTL can provide the bases for marker-assisted breeding programs of upland cotton.

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Abbreviations

QTL:

Quantitative trait locus/loci

RIL:

Recombinant inbred line

IF2:

Immortalized F2

SSR:

Simple sequence repeat

EST:

Expressed sequence tag

AFLP:

Amplified fragment length polymorphism

RAPD:

Random amplified polymorphic DNA

SRAP:

Sequence-related amplified polymorphism

MAB:

Marker-assisted breeding

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Acknowledgments

We thank Prof. Yuqiang Li in the Hunan Cotton Research Institute for kindly providing breeder-owned parental seeds of XZM2. This work was financially supported in part by the National Basic Research Program of China (2011CB109300).

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  1. National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cotton Research Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, 210095, Nanjing, China

    Renzhong Liu, Baohua Wang, Wangzhen Guo, Yongsheng Qin, Yuanming Zhang & Tianzhen Zhang

  2. Shandong Cotton Research Center, 250100, Jinan, China

    Renzhong Liu & Liguo Wang

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Liu, R., Wang, B., Guo, W. et al. Quantitative trait loci mapping for yield and its components by using two immortalized populations of a heterotic hybrid in Gossypium hirsutum L.. Mol Breeding 29, 297–311 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11032-011-9547-0

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