TY - JA AU - Jianqi Zeng AU - Dehui Zhao AU - Li Yang AU - Yufeng Yang AU - Dan Liu AU - Yubing Tian AU - Fengju Wang AU - Shuanghe Cao AU - Xianchun Xia AU - He Zhonghu AU - Yong Zhang TI - Fine mapping and candidate gene analysis of a major QTL for grain length on chromosome 5BS in bread wheat SN - 2095-3119 PY - 2025/// CY - China PB - Elsevier B.V., KeAi Communications Co. KW - Breeding KW - AGROVOC KW - Candidate genes KW - Forecasting KW - Grain KW - Triticum aestivum KW - Quantitative Trait Loci N1 - Peer review; Open Access N2 - Large grain is a favorable trait for appearance quality and a large sink potential in wheat breeding. The stable QTL QGl.caas-5BS for grain length was previously identified in a recombinant inbred line population from the cross of Zhongmai 871 (ZM871) and its sister line Zhongmai 895 (ZM895). Here, a BC1F6 residual heterozygous line was selected from the cross of a ZM871/ZM895//ZM871 population, and six heterozygous recombinant plants were identified in the BC1F7 population from self-pollination of the heterozygous line. QGl.caas-5BS was delimited into an interval of approximately 2.2 Mb flanked by markers Kasp_5B33 and Kasp_5B2 (25.3–27.5 Mb) by phenotyping and genotyping the secondary mapping populations derived from these heterozygous recombinant plants. Five genes were predicted as candidates of QGl.caas-5BS based on sequence polymorphism and differential expression analyses. Further mutation analysis showed that TraesCS5B02G026800 is likely the causal gene of QGl.caas-5BS. The gene-specific marker Kasp_5B_Gl for TraesCS5B02G026800 was developed, and a significant genetic effect of QGl.caas-5BS on grain length was identified in a validation population of 166 cultivars using this marker. These findings lay a good foundation for map-based cloning of QGl.caas-5BS and provide a breeding-applicable marker for the improvement of grain length in wheat UR - https://hdl.handle.net/10883/36189 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jia.2024.04.033 T2 - Journal of Integrative Agriculture ER -