Fig. 1

Genomic regions represented on chromosomes with markers and their reference position. *The corresponding physical distances (Mb) of the QTL regions were obtained by blasting the flanking SNP markers (± 1 LOD) of the most separated QTL in the region to the Chinese Spring RefSeq v1.0 sequence ^** The “a” indicates that BP11 or B19 allele increases the corresponding trait and the “b” indicates that B2002 allele increases the corresponding trait. Red letters are for the BP11xB2002 population and blue letters are for the B19xB2002 population *** Solid and dot lines indicates the markers for each hotspot **** In GN BLUE the—1 LOD SNP (Table S9) was located in a map space without markers, the closest one is 341.3 cM apart, for this reason this environment was ruled out to determine the interval of the R5A.1