Core set of QTLs for flowering related traits and florigens transcript accumulation.

List of QTLs for anthesis, silking and total leaf number that colocalize with eQTLs for ZCN8 and/or ZCN7 and/or ZCN12 accumulation. Each QTL is described by flowering trait, name of the peak SNP, chromosome, bin, coordinate of the peak SNP, physical coordinates (start and end), genetic coordinates (start and end), florigen accumulation trait. For these QTLs, putative candidate genes are proposed, selected among the list of ZCN8-coexpressed genes (in red) and of known flowering time genes (in green). The established function according to MaizeGDB or a tentative description inferred from the function of the rice/sorghum/Arabidopsis orthologs are also shown. Overlaps with flowering time regions detected in Li et al., [7] are listed. DA = days to anthesis, DS = days to silking (DS), ASI = anthesis–silking interval (ASI), DACV = coefficient of variation of DA, DSCV = coefficient of variation of DS as in [7].
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