Genetic analysis of cold tolerance at the germination and booting stages in rice by association mapping.

Low temperature affects the rice plants at all stages of growth. It can cause severe seedling injury and male sterility resulting in severe yield losses. Using a mini core collection of 174 Chinese rice accessions and 273 SSR markers we investigated cold tolerance at the germination and booting stag...

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Main Authors: Yinghua Pan, Hongliang Zhang, Dongling Zhang, Jinjie Li, Haiyan Xiong, Jianping Yu, Jilong Li, Muhammad Abdul Rehman Rashid, Gangling Li, Xiaoding Ma, Guilan Cao, Longzhi Han, Zichao Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120590