Table 1.
List of QTLs related to drought and deep seedling tolerance identified by linkage mapping and association mapping in maize population.
| Method | Abiotic Stress | Traits | Marker | Locus/ QTLs |
Candidate Gene |
References | Maize Populations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linkage mapping | Drought tolerance | Root traits * | RFLPs | 13 QTLs | None | Ruta et al., 2010 | Ac7643xAc7729/TZSRW |
| SNPs | 364 QTLs | None | Li et al., 2018 | DH1MxT877 | |||
| Deep seeding tolerance | Mesocotyl elongation | SSR | 25 QTLs | None | Zhang et al., 2012 | Inbred line 3681-4 and X178 | |
| 11 QTLs | None | Liu et al., 2017 | lines of IBM Syn10 DH population and their parents B73 and Mo17 | ||||
| GWAS | Drought tolerance | Root traits * | SNPs | GRMZM2G153722 | Paece et al., 2015 | Inbred lines populations | |
| SNPs | GRMZM2G148106 | Zhang et al., 2019 | Inbred lines populations | ||||
| SNPs | GRMZM2G136364 | Guo et al., 2020 | Inbred lines populations |
* Root traits: primary root length, seminal root length, axial root length, lateral root length, crown root, and number of seminal roots.