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Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on October 18, 2007.
Genetics, Vol. 177, 1801-1813, November 2007, Copyright © 2007
doi:10.1534/genetics.107.071068
A Mixed-Model Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) Analysis for Multiple-Environment Trial Data Using Environmental Covariables for QTL-by-Environment Interactions, With an Example in Maize
Martin P. Boer*,
,1,
Deanne Wright
,
Lizhi Feng,
Dean W. Podlich,
Lang Luo,
Mark Cooper and
Fred A. van Eeuwijk*,
* Biometris, Wageningen UR, Wageningen, 6708 PD, The Netherlands, Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Wageningen UR, Wageningen, 6708 PB, The Netherlands and Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Johnston, Iowa 50131
1 Corresponding author: Biometris, Wageningen UR, PO Box 100, Wageningen, 6708 PD, The Netherlands.
E-mail: martin.boer{at}wur.nl
Complex quantitative traits of plants as measured on collections of genotypes across multiple environments are the outcome of processes that depend in intricate ways on genotype and environment simultaneously. For a better understanding of the genetic architecture of such traits as observed across environments, genotype-by-environment interaction should be modeled with statistical models that use explicit information on genotypes and environments. The modeling approach we propose explains genotype-by-environment interaction by differential quantitative trait locus (QTL) expression in relation to environmental variables. We analyzed grain yield and grain moisture for an experimental data set composed of 976 F5 maize testcross progenies evaluated across 12 environments in the U.S. corn belt during 1994 and 1995. The strategy we used was based on mixed models and started with a phenotypic analysis of multi-environment data, modeling genotype-by-environment interactions and associated genetic correlations between environments, while taking into account intraenvironmental error structures. The phenotypic mixed models were then extended to QTL models via the incorporation of marker information as genotypic covariables. A majority of the detected QTL showed significant QTL-by-environment interactions (QEI). The QEI were further analyzed by including environmental covariates into the mixed model. Most QEI could be understood as differential QTL expression conditional on longitude or year, both consequences of temperature differences during critical stages of the growth.
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