Study of QTLs linked to awn length and their relationships with chloroplasts under control and saline environments in bread wheat.

Introduction: Some studies in wheat showed that awns may have a useful effect on yield, especially under drought stress. Up to this time few researches has identified the awn length QTLs with different effect in salinity stress.

Objective: The primary objective of this study was to examine the additive (a) and the epistatic (aa) QTLs involve in wheat awns length in control and saline environments.