Table 1.

Flowering-time candidate genes and coinciding SV identified between 7 elite parental lines within QTL for flowering time analyzed in a B. napus multiparental elite population (n = 354)

QTL name	Size of LD block in kb	Start–end position	Number of genes/flowering-time genes in Darmor-bzh	Number of genes/flowering-time genes with structural variants*	Gene IDs	Blast2GO annotation of gene	Name: size and type of SV (relative to Darmor-bzh)	PCR assay name: product size polymorphism (see Fig. 3)
A02_1	352	12,297–364,239	92/10 (10.9%)	14 / 2 (14.2%)	BnaA02g00160D; BnaA02g00910D	Pollen development; regulation of flower development	SV1: 373 bp deletion; SV2: 64 bp deletion	P133: 1130 bp/757 bp; P255: 419 bp/362 bp
A02_2	498	6,311,854–6,810,319	59/8 (13.6%)	6/1 (16.7%)	Promoter of BnaFT.A02; BnaA02g12130D (BnaFT.A02)	-; photoperiodism, flowering, positive regulation of flower development	SV3: 1,361 bp deletion; SV4: 288 bp deletion	P311: 1924 bp/563 bp; P416: 797 bp/519 bp
A02_3	451	22,569,685–23,021,163	73/3 (4.1%)	2/0 (0%)	–	–	–	–
A02_4	383	24,112,932–24,495,807	72/11 (15.3%)	5 / 2 (40%)	BnaA02g33650D; BnaA02g33940D	Circadian rhythm; entrainment of circadian clock	SV5: 1,313 bp deletion; SV6: 35 bp deletion	P513: 819 bp/no product; P632: 667 bp/632 bp
C02_1	331	512,169–842,796	70/0 (0%)	2/0 (0%)	–	–	–	–
C02_2	860	1,028,042–1,888,045	153/11 (7.2%)	2/1 (50%)	BnaC02g03640D	Regulation of flower development	SV7: 38 bp insertion	P732: 262 bp/300 bp
C02_3	360	3,168,965–3,528,564	62/5 (8.1%)	10/0 (0%)	–	–	–	–
C03_1	914	2,434–915,986	190/23(12.1%)	11/0 (0%)	–	–	–	–
Sum	4,149	-	771/71 (9.2%)	52/6 (11.5%)	–	–	–	–

Flowering-time genes were defined according to Schiessl et al. (2015) as genes associated by Blast2GO with at least one of the following gene ontology terms: flower, vernalization, photoperiod, circadian, floral, vegetative to reproductive, vegetative phase change, pollen carpel, sepal, petal