1.Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics,Cornell University,Ithaca,USA;2.Debre Zeit Agricultural Research Center,Debre Zeit,Ethiopia;3.Syngenta Seeds Inc,Stanton,USA;4.Embrapa Arroze Feij?o,Santo Ant?nio de Goiás,Brazil
Abstract:
Background
Tef Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter] is the major cereal crop in Ethiopia. Tef is an allotetraploid with a base chromosome number of 10 (2n =
4× = 40) and a genome size of 730 Mbp. The goal of this study was to identify agronomically important quantitative trait loci
(QTL) using recombinant inbred lines (RIL) derived from an inter-specific cross between E. tef and E. pilosa (30-5).