TY  - JA
AU  - Dias Almeida,G.
AU  - Makumbi,D.
AU  - Magorokosho,C.
AU  - Nair,S.K.
AU  - Borém,A.
AU  - Ribaut,J.M.
AU  - Banziger,M.
AU  - Prasanna,B.M.
AU  - Crossa,J.
AU  - BABU,R.
TI  - QTL mapping in three tropical maize populations reveals a set of constitutive and adaptive genomic regions for drought tolerance
SN  - 1432-2242
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Berlin (Germany)
PB  - Springer
KW  - Quantitative Trait Loci
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Maize
KW  - Tropical zones
KW  - Genetic maps
KW  - Drought tolerance
KW  - Adaptation
N1  - Peer review; Open Access; Peer-review: Yes - Open Access: Yes|http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&ISSN=0040-5752
N2  - Despite numerous published reports of quantitative trait loci (QTL) for drought-related traits, practical applications of such QTL in maize improvement are scarce. Identifying QTL of sizeable effects that express more or less uniformly in diverse genetic backgrounds across contrasting water regimes could significantly complement conventional breeding efforts to improve drought tolerance. We evaluated three tropical bi-parental populations under water-stress (WS) and well-watered (WW) regimes in Mexico, Kenya and Zimbabwe to identify genomic regions responsible for grain yield (GY) and anthesis-silking interval (ASI) across multiple environments and diverse genetic backgrounds. Across the three populations, on average, drought stress reduced GY by more than 50 % and increased ASI by 3.2 days. We identified a total of 83 and 62 QTL through individual environment analyses for GY and ASI, respectively. In each population, most QTL consistently showed up in each water regime. Across the three populations, the phenotypic variance explained by various individual QTL ranged from 2.6 to 17.8 % for GY and 1.7 to 17.8 % for ASI under WS environments and from 5 to 19.5 % for GY under WW environments. Meta-QTL (mQTL) analysis across the three populations and multiple environments identified seven genomic regions for GY and one for ASI, of which six mQTL on chr.1, 4, 5 and 10 for GY were constitutively expressed across WS and WW environments. One mQTL on chr.7 for GY and one on chr.3 for ASI were found to be ‘adaptive’ to WS conditions. High throughput assays were developed for SNPs that delimit the physical intervals of these mQTL. At most of the QTL, almost equal number of favorable alleles was donated by either of the parents within each cross, thereby demonstrating the potential of drought tolerant × drought tolerant crosses to identify QTL under contrasting water regimes
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10883/3178
T2  - Theoretical and Applied Genetics
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-012-2003-7
ER  -