song gaoyuan
Institute of Crop Sciences of CAASThe F2 mapping population including 202 lines derived from the cross between “578” (large grain) and “Sanfensan” (small grain) were used in present study. A genetic linkage map covering 21 linkage groups (LG) was created with 172 SSR markers. The method of CIM was used to detect QTLs related with grain traits. A total of 17 QTLs were identified, of which 6 for grain length (GL) explaining 0.7%-12.83% of the phenotypic variation, 5 for grain width (GW) explaining 0.77%-12.92% of the phenotypic variation, 6 for 1000-grain weight (TGW) explaining 0.58%-10.64% of the phenotypic variation. Four QTLs with over 10% contribution to phenotypic variation were considered as major genes, i.e. qGL-2 (12.83%) for grain length, qGW-5 (12.92%) for grain width, qTGW-3 (10.64) and qTGW-4 (10.05). It is interested that qGL-2 and qTGW-4 are located the same location of the linkage group. In addition, we detected that the interval between AM1089 and AM1512 on linkage group 3 was associated with the grain length, grain width and 1000-grain weight. Meanwhile, the interval between AM1044 and AM939 on linkage group 3 was related to the grain length and 1000-grain weight, and the interval between AM3217 and AM965 was relative with the grain width and 1000-grain weight. The outputs of this research pave the way for studying in oat grain traits and developing marker assistant selection for naked oats.