Improvement of Yield per se in Sugarcane - Translational Genomics for Crop Breeding: Abiotic Stress, Yield and Quality - page 219

Table 13.1. Review of allele tagging experiments related to sugarcane yield component traits, based on QTL studies or association mapping studies. Experimental context, QTL
detection methods and results.

QTLs
detected
across
experiments

No. of
years (crop
cycle) a

Statistical
analysis and
threshold b

R 2 individual

Population
size

No. of
markers

No. of
locations

Traits c

Population Marker type Min Max References

Interspecific crosses
La Purple ( S. off )
x Mol 5829
( S. rob )

44 RAPD 83 1 1(cp) SM (marker

wise p
value < 0.1)

Stalk number 2 - - Sills et al.

(1995)

Stalk diameter 3 - -

Pol 4 - -

Fiber 4 - -

Plot biomass
weight

2 - -

Green German
( S. off )x
IND81-146 ( S.
spont )

264 RFLP 475 1 1(cp) SM (suggestive

level# marker
wise p
value < 0.003)
IM (LOD score
>

Sugar content 14 0.04 0.13 Ming et al.

2001

Fiber 19 0.06 0.13 Ming et al.

2002b

Stalk number 2 0.05 0.15

2.5)

Sugar yield 3 0.05 0.11

Pol 2 0.05 0.09

Stalk weight 10 0.05 0.13

Stalk height 3 0.05 0.08 Ming et al.

2002a

PIN84-1
( S. spont )x
Muntok Java
( S. off )

239 RFLP 260 1 1(cp) SM (suggestive

level#, marker
wise p value
< 0.003) IM
(LOD score
>

Sugar content 22 0.05 0.21 Ming et al.

2001

Fiber 1 0.07 0.07 Ming et al.

2002b

Stalk number 1 0.06 0.06

2.5)

Sugar yield 7 0.05 0.15

Pol 12 0.04 0.15

Stalk weight 25 0.05 0.16

Stalk height 53 0.05 0.23 Ming et al.

2002a

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