TY - JOUR AU - Wang, Baobao AU - Liu, Han AU - Liu, Zhipeng AU - Dong, Xiaomei AU - Guo, Jinjie AU - Li, Wei AU - Chen, Jing AU - Gao, Chi AU - Zhu, Yanbin AU - Zheng, Xinmei AU - Chen, Zongliang AU - Chen, Jian AU - Song, Weibin AU - Hauck, Andrew AU - Lai, Jinsheng PY - 2018 DA - 2018/01/18 TI - Identification of minor effect QTLs for plant architecture related traits using super high density genotyping and large recombinant inbred population in maize (Zea mays) JO - BMC Plant Biology SP - 17 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - Plant Architecture Related Traits (PATs) are of great importance for maize breeding, and mainly controlled by minor effect quantitative trait loci (QTLs). However, cloning or even fine-mapping of minor effect QTLs is very difficult in maize. Theoretically, large population and high density genetic map can be helpful for increasing QTL mapping resolution and accuracy, but such a possibility have not been actually tested. SN - 1471-2229 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-018-1233-5 DO - 10.1186/s12870-018-1233-5 ID - Wang2018 ER -