Table 4.

List of candidate genes associated with WT

SLAF tag	Position/bp	Candidate genea	Functional annotation
Marker384075	137/179	CL5639.Contig3_All	Betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase BADH
Marker28685	14/57	Unigene6108_All	Protein kinase APK1B
Marker5356	9/141	Unigene33415_All	Serine/threonine-protein kinase SRK2E; Serine/threonine-protein kinase OST1; SNF1-related kinase 2.6 SnRK2.6
Marker4335	53	Unigene21682_All	Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like serine/threonine-protein kinase BAM1
Marker6619	75	CL17968.Contig2_All	Hypothetical protein Ccrd_010998 [Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus]

^aFirst four candidate genes have been reported to be related to abiotic stress; the function of CL17968.Contig2_All, which was also selected to be verified via qRT-PCR, is unknown