Table 2.
Traits mapped in crop multi-parent advanced generation inter-cross (MAGIC) populations.
| Crop | QTL mapping trait/s | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Barley | Flowering time | (Sannemann et al. 2015; Mathew et al. 2018; Afsharyan et al. 2020) |
| Bread wheat | Plant height, hectolitre grain weight | (Huang et al. 2012) |
| Awn presence/absence | (Mackay et al. 2014) | |
| SnTox 1 and SnTox3 sensitivity (Parastagonospora nodorum fungal effectors) | (Cockram et al. 2015; Downie et al. 2018) | |
| ToxB sensitivity (Pyrenophora tritici-repentis fungal effector) | (Corsi et al. 2020) | |
| Coleoptile and shoot length | (Rebetzke et al. 2014) | |
| Grain dormancy | (Barrero et al. 2015) | |
| Inflorescence architecture and paired spikelet development | (Boden et al. 2015) | |
| Digitally extracted phenology and senescence | (Camargo et al. 2016) | |
| Powdery mildew resistance (seedling) | (Stadlmeier et al. 2018) | |
| Plant height | (Sannemann et al. 2018) | |
| Inflorescence architecture and development | (Dixon et al. 2018) | |
| Digitally extracted plant area, height, water use and senescence | (Camargo et al. 2018) | |
| Powdery mildew, Septoria tritici blotch and tan spot disease resistance | (Stadlmeier et al. 2019) | |
| Septoria nodorum blotch disease resistance (in leaf and glume tissues) | (Lin et al. 2020) | |
| Chinese mustard (Brassica juncea) | Glucosinolate content | (Yan et al. 2020) |
| Cotton | Fibre quality | (Islam et al. 2016; Thyssen et al. 2019) |
| Fibre length | (Naoumkina et al. 2019) | |
| Root-knot nematode resistance | (Wubben et al. 2019) | |
| Fibre maturity and fineness | (Kim et al. 2020) | |
| Verticillium wilt resistance | (Zhang et al. 2020) | |
| Cowpea | Flowering time, growth habit, flower colour, leaf shape and seed characteristics | (Huynh et al. 2018) |
| Durum wheat | Grain yield | (Milner et al. 2016) |
| Faba bean | Frost tolerance and related traits | (Sallam and Martsch 2015) |
| Maize | Grain yield, flowering time | (Dell’Acqua et al. 2015) |
| Genetic recombination | (Guan et al. 2017) | |
| Plant height, ear height and flowering time | (Anderson et al. 2018) | |
| Corn borer resistance | (Jiménez-Galindo et al. 2019) | |
| Fusarium seedling rot resistance | (Septiani et al. 2019) | |
| Fusarium ear rot resistance | (Butrón et al. 2019) | |
| Stover yield and saccharification efficiency | (Lopez-Malvar et al. 2020) | |
| Cold tolerance | (Yi et al. 2020) | |
| Rice | Blast/bacterial blight resistance, salinity/submergence tolerance and grain quality | (Bandillo et al. 2013) |
| Yield and yield components | (Meng, Zhao et al. 2016) | |
| Plant height, heading date | (Meng, Guo et al. 2016) | |
| Yield and yield components, flowering time, plant height, amylose content, submergence tolerance and brown spot disease resistance | (Raghavan et al. 2017) | |
| Yield and yield components, plant height, bacterial leaf blight, flowering time and biofortification | (Descalsota et al. 2018) | |
| Bacterial leaf streak and bacterial leaf blight | (Bossa-Castro et al. 2018) | |
| Grain shape | (Ogawa, Nonoue et al. 2018) | |
| Grain quality, cooking and taste attributes | (Ponce et al. 2018) | |
| Yield, plant height, heading date, grain quality and biofortification | (Zaw et al. 2019) | |
| Grain length, grain width, grain thickness, and thousand grain weight | (Ponce et al. 2020) | |
| Heading date | (Han et al. 2020) | |
| Sorghum | Plant height | (Ongom and Ejeta 2018) |
| Strawberry | Fruit quality-related traits | (Wada et al. 2017) |
| Tomato | Fruit weight | (Pascual et al. 2015) |
| Fruit weight and flowering time plasticity in response to water, salinity and heat stress | (Diouf et al. 2020) |