Marker-trait association analysis of functional gene markers for provitamin A levels across diverse tropical yellow maize inbred lines

Table 2 Nomenclature of functional DNA markers and their allelic series[12, 33, 34]

Gene	Polymorphic site/marker gene name-polymorphism)	Nature of polymorphism	Allelic series and notations*
PSY1[33]	PSY -SNP7	A-C substitution SNP	A, C
PSY1[33]	PSY1-IDI	378 bp indel	0, 378
LCYE[12]	LCYE-5′TE	285 indel	1, 2, 3, 4
	LCYE-SNP (216)	G-C SNP	G, T
	LCYE-3′indel	8 bp indel	8, 0
crtRB1 [34]	crtRB1-5′TE	397/206 bp indel	1, 2, 3
	crtRB1-InDel4	12 bp indel	12, 0
	crtRB1-3′TE	325/1250 bp indel	1, 2, 3

*Allelic variants denoted in bold face underlined letters represent the best favourable alleles as proposed in the references. In the current study lcyE 5′TE yielded no amplification for 73% of the inbred lines invariably. Hence there is an additional notation in the results section for those samples scored as a 0’ allele to mean no amplification’.

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