Table 7.

Co-locating candidate genes related to drought tolerance in the physical intervals delimited by meta-QTLs

mQTL	Gene name	Gene position	Gene ID from Gramene	Referencesa
mQTL_GY_1a	Cysteine synthase2(cys2)	177027403–177032403	GRMZM2G005887	Zhang et al. (2008)
mQTL_GY_1b	Exoglucanase1(exg1)	276305014–276310701	GRMZM2G147687
	Lethal embryo mutant1(lem1)	281107355–281109091	AC234157.1_FG002
	Phosphohexose isomerase1(phi1)	283086411–283088116	GRMZM2G065083
	Aldehyde oxidade (ZmAO3)	285274032	GRMZM2G124260	Setter et al. (2011)
mQTL_ASI_3	MADS-domain transcription factor (Zmm16)	171427820–171430412	GRMZM2G110153	Whipple et al. (1997), Dwivedi et al. (2008), Setter et al. (2011)
mQTL_GY_5	petD	209941448–209965363	GRMZM2G427444	Raab et al. (2006)
	Glutathione transferase24(gst24)	211038250–211039523	GRMZM2G032856	Darko et al. (2011), Chen et al. (2012), Varga et al. (2012)
mQTL_GY_7	Glutathione transferase23(gst23)	128373591–128375197	GRMZM2G416632	Marrs (1996), Darko et al. (2011), Chen et al. (2012), Varga et al. (2012)
	Isoamylase-type starch debranching(iso3)	129101506–129113096	GRMZM2G150796
	Glutathione S-transferase2(gst2)	90200517–90201913	GRMZM2G132093	Marrs (1996), Darko et al. (2011), Chen et al. (2012), Varga et al. (2012)
mQTL_GY_10a	Cytochrome B6-F complex subunit 5 (petG)	90315936–90316307	GRMZM2G547408	Hu et al. (2010)
	NADH dehydrogenase F(ndhF)	90140275–90144126	GRMZM2G405584	Casagrande et al. (2001), Pastore et al. (2007)
mQTL_GY_10b	Lipoxygenase7(lox7)	120216863–120221081	GRMZM2G070092	Gigon et al. (2004), Peng et al. (2011)
	Glutamine synthetase1 (gln1)	146465615–146471079	GRMZM2G098290	Martin et al. (2006), Swarbreck et al. (2011), Yu et al. (2012)
	Transcription factor (myb2)	140048665–140050182	GRMZM2G081557	Cominelli et al. (2005), Dubos et al. 2010

^aStudies reporting the active involvement of these genes with drought tolerance in maize or other species. Authors not listed in the reference section could be found in the supplementary reference