Genome-wide QTL mapping of yield and agronomic traits in two widely adapted winter wheat cultivars from multiple mega-environments

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Introduction

Materials & Methods

Plant materials, field trials and phenotyping

Statistical analysis

Genotyping and linkage map construction

QTL analysis

Results

Phenotypic variability, heritability, and correlations

Boxplot, biplot, and mega-environment

Linkage map and QTL analyses

Grain yield

Test weight

Pleiotropic QTL to grain yield and test weight

Interactions of epistasis, epistasis-by-environment, and additive-by-environment

Discussion

Conclusions

Supplemental Information

Supplemental Tables

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12350/supp-1

Supplemental Figures

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12350/supp-2

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

Charles D. Johnson is an Academic Editor for PeerJ.

The authors declare there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Smit Dhakal and Xiaoxiao Liu performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Chenggen Chu analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Yan Yang analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Jackie C. Rudd and Amir M.H. Ibrahim conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Qingwu Xue performed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Ravindra N. Devkota Jason A. Baker, Shannon A. Baker, Bryan E. Simoneaux, Geraldine B. Opena, Russell Sutton, Kirk E. Jessup and Kele Hui performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Shichen Wang, Charles D. Johnson and Richard P. Metz performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Shuyu Liu conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The Supplemental Files include all the marker sequences as well as the top 20 line yield across individual environment that will be published.

Funding

This research was supported by Bayer AG and the BASF Corporation, Texas Wheat Producer Board, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Tom B. Slick Fellowship from Texas A&M University, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (2019-67013-29172 and 2017-67007-25939 to Shuyu Liu). The open access publishing fees for this article have been covered by the Texas A&M University Open Access to Knowledge Fund (OAKFund), supported by the University Libraries. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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