A new advanced backcross tomato population enables high resolution leaf QTL mapping and gene identification

• Published in: bioRxiv
• Main Authors: Fulop, Daniel, Ranjan, Aashish, Ofner, Itai, Covington, Michael F, Chitwood, Daniel H, West, Donnelly, Ichihashi, Yasunori, Headland, Lauren, Zamir, Daniel, Maloof, Julin N, Sinha, Neelima R
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Cold Spring Harbor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 10.08.2016
• Subjects: Cultivars; Domestication; Epistasis; Flowering; Gene loci; Gene mapping; Genotyping; Inbreeding; Leaves; Population; Quantitative trait loci; Solanum pennellii

Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) mapping is a powerful technique for dissecting the genetic basis of traits and species differences. Established tomato mapping populations between domesticated tomato and its more distant interfertile relatives typically follow a near isogenic line (NIL) design, such a...