Publications by authors named "Guiqiang Fan"
Article Synopsis
- The study explores how the loss of a specific enzyme, POACEATAPETOL SYNTHASE1, leads to humidity-sensitive male sterility in maize and wheat.
- This sterility can be harnessed to produce high-quality hybrid seeds, with over 99% purity in maize.
- The findings highlight the potential for using genetic mechanisms to improve crop breeding and seed production efficiency.
To investigate the genetic mechanisms underlying the reproductive traits (time to flowering and maturity) in wheat and identify candidate genes associated, a phenotypic analysis was conducted on 239 wheat accessions (lines) from around the world. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of wheat heading and maturity phases was performed using the MLM (Q+K) model in the TASSLE software, combined with the Wheat 55K SNP array. The results revealed significant phenotypic variation in heading and maturity among the wheat accessions across different years, with coefficients of variation ranging from 0.
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