TY  - JA
AU  - Tamilkumar,P.
AU  - Senthil,N.
AU  - Sureshkumar,S.
AU  - Thangavelu,A.U.
AU  - Nagarajan,P.
AU  - Vellaikumar,S.
AU  - Ganesan,K.N.
AU  - Natarajan,N.
AU  - Balagopal,R.
AU  - Nepolean,T.
AU  - Raveendran,M.
TI  - Introgression of low phytic acid locus (lpa2-2) into an elite Maize (Zea mays L.) inbred through marker assisted backcross breeding
SN  - 1835-2707
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Australia
PB  - Southern Cross Publishing
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Selection
KW  - Maize
KW  - Marker-assisted selection
KW  - Phytic acid
N1  - Peer review; Open Access
N2  - Here, we have transferred the low-PA locus (i.e., lpa2-2 allele that confers low-PA trait) by crossing low-PA line “EC 659418” (donor line) with an elite inbred “UMI 285” (recipient line) using Marker Assisted Backcross Breeding (MABB). In our MABB program, for “foreground selection” (i.e., screening for plants with introgressed lpa2-2 locus) small sequence repeat (SSR) marker “umc2230” was used, and for “background selection” (i.e., screening for introgressed lines whose genetic background are similar to that of the recurrent parent) 47 SSR markers were used. As a result, we have developed four lines with both reduced-PA trait similar to that of donor parent, and agronomical traits (i.e., days to 50% tasseling, days to 50% silking, plant height, ear height, 100 seed weight, grain yield per plant, germination and seed vigor) similar to that of the recurrent parent
UR  - http://www.cropj.com/august2014.html
T2  - Australian Journal of Crop Science
ER  -