Novel maize plant
AssigneeSyngenta Participations AG
InventorsMichel Jean Francois RAGOT, Denis LESPINASSE, Jean-Paul MULLER, Pascal DELAGE
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Abstract
The present invention relates to maize plants with a genome comprising a unique allele profile associated with the corresponding QTLs contributing to the expression of a variety of phenotypic traits of economic interest selected from the group of grain yield, grain moisture at harvest, early and late root lodging, stalk lodging, common smut incidence, fusarium ear rot incidence, sulcotrione resistance, and tassel architecture. The invention further relates to method for obtaining such a plant as well as assays and screening methods for identifying plants with the desired profile.
Claims13
A method of identifying a maize plant having increased or decreased grain yield, the method comprising:
- a) detecting in a maize plant at least one allele within a grain yield QTL, as listed in Table 1, that is associated with either decreased or increased grain yield;
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- b) selecting the maize plant having decreased or increased grain yield.
A method of producing a maize plant having increased grain yield, the method comprising:
- a) detecting in a first maize plant at least one allele within a grain yield QTL, as listed in Table 1, that is associated with increased grain yield;
- b) crossing the first maize plant with a second maize plant wherein the second maize plant does not have in its genome the at least one allele within the grain yield QTL that is associated with increased grain yield detected in the first maize plant;
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- c) producing a maize plant having increased grain yield.
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