Pleiotropy or linkage - one genomic segment controls multiple drought-related traits in maize

Larissa Barl, Sonja Blankenagel, Viktoriya Avramova, Chris-Carolin Schön
Project duration: 01.07.2019 - 30.06.2023
Project partner: Sonderforschungsbereich SFB924 "Molecular mechanisms regulating yield and yield stability in plants" (http://www.sfb924.wzw.tum.de)
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Project description:

Drought is one of the major constraints of plant productivity worldwide and drought tolerance therefore constitutes a highly important agronomic trait. We used a maize introgression library (IL) to identify genomic regions with impact on drought and/or growth related traits. We have mapped a key region on chromosome 7 and propose here to study candidate genes identified through genetic mapping and RNA-seq analysis.