Genetic Control of Flowering Time in a Soft Red Winter Wheat Doubled Haploid Population

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dc.contributor.advisorCosta, Jose Men_US
dc.contributor.authorMiller, Daniela Michelleen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPlant Science and Landscape Architecture (PSLA)en_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-09T06:37:57Z
dc.date.available2016-02-09T06:37:57Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractFlowering time in wheat is regulated mainly by response to seasonal environmental cues and controlled by the photoperiod and vernalization pathways. Allelic diversity in genes controlling these pathways is used by breeders to adapt wheat for optimal yield in a broad range of environments. This study characterized genetic loci influencing heading date in a soft red winter wheat doubled haploid population. Two photoperiod insensitivity alleles, Ppd-A1a and Ppd-D1a, were found to have major effects in eight field locations. The Ppd-A1 locus explained up to 16.8% of variation in heading date, whereas the Ppd-D1 locus explained up to 39.7%. In reduced vernalization greenhouse experiments, a QTL in the same region as the VRN-A1 gene explained up to 42.4% of variation in heading date, suggesting that the population differed in this region. Assays for previously-described allelic diversity in the VRN-A1 gene, however, did not detect any polymorphism between parents of the population.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M28X4Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/17398
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPlant sciencesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAgricultureen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledGeneticsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddoubled haploiden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledflowering timeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledphotoperioden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsoft red winter wheaten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledvernalizationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledwheaten_US
dc.titleGenetic Control of Flowering Time in a Soft Red Winter Wheat Doubled Haploid Populationen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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