Genetic dissection of grain yield and correlated proxy traits under suboptimal conditions
Yan-Cheng Lin, Claude Urbany, Antonina Shlykova, Armin C. Hölker, Milena Ouzunova, Thomas Presterl, Torsten Pook, Manfred Mayer, Sebastian Urzinger, Chris-Carolin Schön · 2026
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Yan-Cheng Lin and nine co-authors mapped genes for maize yield under hard growing conditions in a 2026 study. Crops must yield well even under heat and drought, but the gene base for that is tangled with local weather. The team built a cross from eight parent lines with varied stress tolerance.
The cross gave nearly four hundred lines, tested in many trials across Europe. Twenty-two gene regions for grain yield were found, covering a large share of the gene-based spread. Under stress, yield tracked leaf aging and leaf rolling measured in the lines themselves. Folding those stand-in traits into forecasts raised accuracy a bit. The authors offer the cross as a strong resource for stress work.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yan-Cheng Lin, Claude Urbany, Antonina Shlykova, Armin C. Hölker, Milena Ouzunova, Thomas Presterl, Torsten Pook, Manfred Mayer, Sebastian Urzinger, Chris-Carolin Schön |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 85 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |