Table 3.
Effects of heterosis QTL identified for 14 yield traits in two backcross populations in the three trials.
| BC-V | BC-E | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trait | A | PD | D | OD | A | PD | D | OD | |
| Plant architectural traits and days to flowering | PH | 9 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| DF | 14 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| MSL | 8 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 9 | |
| PBR | 6 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| SBR | 8 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Silique related traits | SPY | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| SQD | 8 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 11 | |
| SQL | 14 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
| SQMS | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| SQPL | 6 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | |
| SSQ | 7 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| Seed related traits | OIL | 8 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| PRO | 8 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
| TSW | 6 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
| Total | 112 | 9 | 17 | 108 | 95 | 8 | 14 | 87 | |
A, additive effect QTL; PD, partial dominance effect QTL; D, dominance effect QTL; and OD, over dominance effect QTL.