Genetic control of prolificacy and related traits in the golden glow maize population: II. Genotypic analysis.

From: Crop Science | Date: July 1, 2005| Author: de Leon, N.; Coors, J.G.; Kaeppler, S.M. | Copyright information

The open-pollinated maize (Zea mays subsp. mays) population Golden Glow [GG(MP)] provides excellent material for the study of morphological and genetic changes associated with selection for prolificacy. Late generations of the GG(MP), when planted at low densities, resemble the architecture of teosinte (Z. mays snbsp, parviglumis), the ancestor of maize. Our objectives were (i) to identify molecular markers linked to chromosomal regions that influenced prolificacy and related morphological ...

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