Oil content in a European x Chinese rapeseed population: QTL with additive and epistatic effects and their genotype-environment interactions.(Crop Breeding, Genetics & Cytology) From: Crop Science | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Zhao, Jianyi; Becker, Heiko C.; Zhang, Dongqing; Zhang, Yaofeng; Ecke, Wolfgang | COPYRIGHT 2005 Crop Science Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) is one of the most important oilseed crops both in Europe and in China. The objective of this study was to investigate whether the European and the Chinese gene pools of winter oilseed rape contain different alleles for high seed oil content. A linkage map of rapeseed comprising 125 SSR markers and covering 1196-cM genome length was constructed from an [F.sub.1] derived doubled haploid (DH) population from a cross between the German cultivar Sollux and the Chine...