Association Mapping for Flowering Time and Moisture Loss of Grains in Maize Tropical Germplasm.

Background And Objective: With the advent of high-scale genotyping platforms, association studies have become important tools for finding genomic regions of interest in breeding programs, due to the fact that their improved more accuracy than the other tools. The aim of this work was to map genomic regions associated with grain maturation in common maize strains.

Materials And Methods: For linkage disequilibrium mapping, 72 strains were previously genotyped for SNP markers on the 650K platform and their respective genotypic values were predicted for male and female flowering and area below the moisture curve.