Study of QTLs linked to awn length and their relationships with chloroplasts under control and saline environments in bread wheat

Some studies in wheat showed that awns may have a useful effect on yield, especially under drought stress. Up to this time few researches has identified the awn length QTLs with different effect in salinity stress. The primary objective of this study was to examine the additive (a) and the epistatic (aa) QTLs involve in wheat awns length in control and saline environments. A F7 RIL population consisting of 319 sister lines, derived from a cross...