Browsing by Subject "QTL"
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(2014-07-10)Sorghum genotypes used for grain production in temperate regions are photoperiod insensitive, while energy sorghum is highly photoperiod sensitive and flowers late in long days, resulting in enhanced biomass accumulation. ...
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(2014-03-31)Sorghum bicolor is a subtropical grass grown throughout the world for human consumption, animal feed and for the growing biofuels industry. In this thesis I characterize sorghum stem growth and chemical composition, and ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)A quantitative trait locus (QTL) is the location of a gene that affects a trait that is measured on a quantitative (linear) scale. Many important agricultural traits such as weight gain, milk fat content and intramuscular ...
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(2017-07-24)Epicuticular wax acts as a plant’s first line of defense against environmental afflictions. Wax is known to be a factor in stress adaptation and also provides resistance to disease, drought, and heat due to its ability to ...
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(2012-07-16)Wheat grain quality has a complex genetic architecture heavily influenced by the growing environment. Consistency in wheat quality not only affects the efficiency of milling and baking but also the quality of end-use ...
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(2022-07-27)Salinity is one of the main destructive abiotic stresses affecting crop production, as increasing salinity in soil and water supplies used for irrigation are result in decreased productivity for most crop plants, especially ...
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(2013-07-26)Endurance exercise capacity is a powerful predictor of health status. Having low levels of endurance exercise capacity has been linked with cardiovascular disease. Variation in endurance exercise capacity, measured during ...
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(2015-08-12)Popped sorghum (Sorghum bicolor, L. Moench) is becoming increasingly popular with niche consumers. However, sorghum has not undergone the years of intensive selective breeding that popcorn has. This study measured popping ...
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(2009-05-15)Beta-carotene presence or absence in muskmelon is controlled by two genes, green flesh gf and white flesh wf. In its dominant form the wf gene is responsible for orange flesh color; however, the epistatic interactions of ...
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(2019-03-19)Lignocellulosic biofuels are a promising source of renewable liquid fuel. Sorghum is a drought-resilient C4 grass that is grown for grain, forage, sugar, and biomass. It is a promising lignocellulosic biofuel feedstock ...
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(2011-08-08)In cattle, base color is attributed to activity at the melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R), historically termed the extension locus, with alleles coding for black (ED), red (e), and wild-type (E+). These alleles, in most mammals, ...
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Inactivation or mutation of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN), a tumor suppressor gene, is implicated in unregulated cell proliferation, leading to tumor growth and the development of cancer. Identification of modifier ...
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(2021-07-19)Leveillula taurica, the causative agent of powdery mildew disease, and pepper mottle virus (PepMoV) are major pathogens of Capsicum annuum L. They cause damage to the foliage, leading to fruit quality reduction due to ...
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(2016-04-04)Cultivar progression requires years of development prior to performance trials; reducing development time requirements as well as introgression of favorable alleles is crucial to the rapid improvement of cultivars. ...
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(2012-07-16)Aflatoxins are potent carcinogens produced by the fungus Aspergillus flavus Link:Fr and are a significant preharvest problem in maize production in Texas, the southern US, and subtropical climates. Several sources of maize ...
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(2020-11-25)Salinity is the most extensive problem in coastal rice eco-systems and tolerance at reproductive stage of rice is crucial for higher grain yield. In this study, two salt-tolerant varieties, CSR28 and Hasawi, and a ...
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(2016-04-07)Global climate experiments project an average increase of ambient temperatures of 0.2°C per decade. Such prediction emphasizes the importance of crop varieties that have high heat tolerance. Wheat is significantly affected ...
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(2011-10-21)In the interest of understanding the genetic basis of adaption to environment, we developed F2 lines from an F1 interspecific cross between the rare serpentine endemic, Caulanthus amplexicaulis var. barbarae and the ...
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(2012-07-16)Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is one of the most important food crops, comprising the largest source of daily calorie and protein intake of human beings worldwide. Among the several diseases of wheat, Yellow Rust (YR; caused ...
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(2016-08-03)Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) is a leguminous crop that many around the world rely on to meet their basic nutritional needs through the consumption of the protein and fiber rich grain and vegetative matter. Water and ...