• Kernel weight in maize: genetic control of its physiological and compositional determinants in a dent × flint-caribbean RIL population 

      Mandolino, Cecilia Ines; D´Andrea, Karina Elizabeth; Piedra, Carlina V.; Alvarez Prado, Santiago; Olmos, Sofía Eugenia; Cirilo, Alfredo Gabriel; Otegui, María Elena (Maydica-ist Sper Cerealicoltur, 2016-12)
      The genetic control of maize kernel weight (KW) determination could be studied through its physiological and/ or compositional determinants. Our objective was to dissect the genetic control of maize KW by analyzing its ...
    • Loci de caracteres cuantitativos para rasgos reproductivos en bovinos lecheros locales 

      Raschia, Maria Agustina; Maizon, Daniel Omar; Amadio, Ariel; Poli, Mario Andres (Sociedad Argentina de Genética, 2022-10)
      Introducción: La intensa selección para producción lechera junto con una consideración insuficiente de parámetros de fertilidad y salud, sumado a las correlaciones genéticas antagonistas o cercanas a cero entre caracteres ...
    • Maize Nitrogen Use Efficiency: QTL Mapping in a U.S. Dent x Argentine-Caribbean Flint RILs population 

      Mandolino, Cecilia Ines; D'Andrea, Karina Elizabeth; Olmos, Sofía Eugenia; Otegui, María Elena; Eyherabide, Guillermo (2018-04)
      This study was aimed to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) for nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) and related traits in a maize population derived from a cross between two lines with different genetic background (B100 and ...
    • Mapeo de QTL asociados a caracteres de arquitectura de canopeo en maíz (Zea mays L.) 

      Molins, Luciano Germán; Cirilo, Alfredo Gabriel; Eyherabide, Guillermo Hugo (2017-09)
      En condiciones de alta productividad el rendimiento en maíz es altamente dependiente de la presencia de una fuente fotosintética suficiente para la obtención de un alto número de granos por unidad de superficie y para el ...
    • Mapeo molecular de QTLs asociados a la respuesta al Síndrome de la Muerte Súbita (Fusarium tucumaniae) en soja [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] 

      Bernardi, Clarisa Noelia (2018-11-09)
      El Síndrome de la Muerte Súbita (SMS) es una enfermedad que afecta el cultivo de soja en Argentina, es causado por cuatro especies de Fusarium habitantes del suelo, con predominio en Argentina de Fusarium tucumaniae. La ...
    • Mapping QTL for resistance to new virulent races of wheat stripe rust from two Argentinean wheat cultivars 

      Cobo, Nicolás; Pfluger, Laura Alicia; Chen, Xianming; Dubcovsky, Jorge (Crop Science Society of America, 2018)
      During the last two decades, new virulent and aggressive races of Puccinia striiformis Westend. f. sp. tritici (Pst) have spread worldwide, causing devastating epidemics and prompting the search for new sources of resistance ...
    • Mapping QTL for spike fertility and related traits in two doubled haploid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) populations 

      Pretini, Nicole; Vanzetti, Leonardo Sebastian; Terrile, Ignacio Ismael; Donaire, Guillermo Manuel; Gonzalez, Fernanda Gabriela (BMC, 2021-07)
      Background: In breeding programs, the selection of cultivars with the highest yield potential consisted in the selection of the yield per se, which resulted in cultivars with higher grains per spike (GN) and occasionally ...
    • Mapping Resistance to Argentinean Fusarium (Graminearum) Head Blight Isolates in Wheat 

      Sgarbi, Carolina; Malbrán, Ismael; Saldúa, Luciana; Lori, Gladys Albina; Lohwasser, Ulrike; Arif, Mian Abdur Rehman; Börner, Andreas; Yanniccari, Marcos; Castro, Ana Maria (MDPI, 2021-12)
      Fusarium head blight (FHB) of wheat, caused by Fusarium graminearum (Schwabe), is a destructive disease worldwide, reducing wheat yield and quality. To accelerate the improvement of scab tolerance in wheat, we assessed the ...
    • Natural occurring epialleles determine vitamin E accumulation in tomato fruits 

      Quadrana, Leandro Daniel; Almeida de Souza, Juliana Beatriz; Asis, Ramón; Duffy, Tomas; Dominguez, Pia Guadalupe; Bermudez Salazar, Luisa; Conti, Gabriela; Silva, Junia V. Corrêa da; Peralta, Iris Edith; Colot, Vincent; Asurmendi, Sebastian; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Rossi, Magdalena; Carrari, Fernando Oscar (2014-07)
      Vitamin E (VTE) content is a low heritability nutritional trait for which the genetic determinants are poorly understood. Here, we focus on a previously detected major tomato VTE quantitative trait loci (QTL; mQTL9-2-6) ...
    • Phenotyping and QTL mapping for cold tolerance at the germination and seedling stages in Argentine temperate rice 

      Bonell, Martha Lucrecia; Arguissain, Gustavo Gabriel; Crepy, Maria Andrea; Fernandez, Paula Del Carmen; Heinz, Ruth Amelia (Springer, 2020-07)
      In Argentina, the yield potential of rice (Oryza sativa L.) under suboptimal temperatures of temperate regions and during early sowing in tropical regions depends on its low-temperature germinability (LTG) and subsequent ...
    • QTL analysis of main and epistatic effects for flour color traits in durum wheat 

      Roncallo, Pablo Federico; Cervigni, Gerardo Domingo Lucio; Jensen, Carlos Alberto; Miranda, Rubén; Carrera, Alicia Delia; Helguera, Marcelo; Echenique, Carmen Viviana (2012-05)
      The aim of this work was to map quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with flour yellow color (Fb*) and yellow pigment content (YPC) in durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. var. durum). Additionally, QTLs affecting flour ...
    • Quantitative genetics and genomics converge to accelerate forest tree breeding 

      Grattapaglia, Dario; Silva Junior, Orzenil B.; Resende, Rafael T.; Cappa, Eduardo Pablo; Müller, Bárbara S. F.; Tan, Biyue; Isik, Fikret; Ratcliffe, Blaise; El-Kassaby, Yousry A. (2018-11)
      Forest tree breeding has been successful at delivering genetically improved material for multiple traits based on recurrent cycles of selection, mating, and testing. However, long breeding cycles, late flowering, variable ...
    • Quantitative trait loci affecting reproductive phenology in peach 

      Romeu Santacreu, José Francisco; Monforte Gilabert, Antonio J.; Sanchez, Gerardo; Granell Richart, Antonio; García Brunton, Jesús; Badenes, María Luisa; Ríos García, Gabino (2014-02-22)
      Background: The reproductive phenology of perennial plants in temperate climates is largely conditioned by the duration of bud dormancy, and fruit developmental processes. Bud dormancy release and bud break depends on the ...
    • Quantitative trait loci exploration and characterization of gestation length in Holstein cattle 

      Raschia, Maria Agustina; Maizon, Daniel Omar; Amadio, Ariel; Nani, Juan Pablo; Poli, Mario Andres (Elsevier, 2024-02)
      Gestation length (GL) is a moderately heritable trait in cattle with economic and management implications. This study aimed to characterize the gestation length of an Argentinian Holstein cattle population, understand ...
    • Quantitative trait loci for Fusarium and Gibberella ear rot resistance in Argentinian maize germplasm 

      Giomi, Gerardo Mario; Iglesias, Juliana; Kreff, Enrique D.; Fauguel, Carolina Maria; Fernández, Mariana; Oviedo, María Silvina; Presello, Daniel Alberto (2016)
      Fusarium verticillioides and F. graminearum cause ear rots in maize (Zea mays L.) that reduce yield and contaminate the grain with mycotoxins produced by the fungi. To map QTLs for resistance to these ear rots, a F5 mapping ...
    • Seed dormancy QTL identification across a Sorghum bicolor segregating population 

      Cantoro, Renata; Fernandez, Luis German; Cervigni, Gerardo Domingo Lucio; Rodriguez, María V.; Gieco, Jorge Omar; Paniego, Norma Beatriz; Heinz, Ruth Amelia; Benech-Arnold, Roberto Luis (2016)
      Pre-harvest sprouting (PHS) in Sorghum bicolor is one of the main constrains for its production in the central region of Argentina, as grain maturation often coincides with rainy or high environmental humidity conditions. ...
    • Studying growth and vigor as quantitative traits in grapevine populations 

      Hugalde, Ines Pilar; Riaz, Summaira; Agüero, Cecilia B.; Vila, Hernan Felix; Gomez Talquenca, Gonzalo; Walker, M. Andrew (IntechOpen, 2019-03)
      Vigor is considered as a propensity to assimilate, store, and/or use nonstructural carbohydrates for producing large canopies, and it is associated with high metabolism and fast growth. Growth involves cell expansion and ...
    • The genetic architecture of photosynthesis and plant growthrelated traits in tomato 

      Oliveira Silva, Franklin Magnum de; Lichtenstein, Gabriel; Alseekh, Saleh; Rosado‐Souza, Laise; Conte, Mariana; Fuentes Suguiyama, Vanessa; Lira, Bruno Silvestre; Fanourakis, Dimitrios; Usadel, Björn; Lopes Bhering, Leonardo; DaMatta, Fábio M.; Sulpice, Ronan; Araújo, Wagner L.; Rossi, Magdalena; de Setta, Nathalia; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Carrari, Fernando; Nunes Nesi, Adriano (Wiley, 2018-02)
      To identify genomic regions involved in the regulation of fundamental physiological processes such as photosynthesis and respiration, a population of Solanum pennellii introgression lines was analyzed. We determined ...
    • The peach volatilome modularity is reflected at the genetic and environmental response levels in a QTL mapping population 

      Sanchez, Gerardo; Martinez, José; Romeu Santacreu, José Francisco; García Brunton, Jesús; Monforte Gilabert, Antonio J.; Badenes, María Luisa; Granell Richart, Antonio (2014-05-19)
      Background: The improvement of fruit aroma is currently one of the most sought-after objectives in peach breeding programs. To better characterize and assess the genetic potential for increasing aroma quality by breeding, ...