Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Comparative and parallel genome-wide association studies for metabolic and agronomic traits in cereals

  • Wei Chen,
  • Wensheng Wang,
  • Meng Peng,
  • Liang Gong,
  • Yanqiang Gao,
  • Jian Wan,
  • Shouchuang Wang,
  • Lei Shi,
  • Bin Zhou,
  • Zongmei Li,
  • Xiaoxi Peng,
  • Chenkun Yang,
  • Lianghuan Qu,
  • Xianqing Liu,
  • Jie Luo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12767
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The plant metabolome is often considered as a bridge between genomic and phenotypic variation. Here, the authors perform metabolic and phenotypic genome-wide association studies in rice grain, and compare to prior studies on rice leaf and maize kernel, to demonstrate a new strategy to investigate complex traits.