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Selection for Lodging Resistance in Early Generations of Field Pea by Molecular Markers

Chunzhen Zhang^a,*,, Bunyamin Tar'an^b,, Tom Warkentin'^b, Abebe Tullu^b, Kirstin E. Bett^b, Bert Vandenberg^b and Daryl J. Somers^c

^a Department of Horticulture, Room 259, Horticulture Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
^b Crop Development Centre/Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, S7N 5A8
^c Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Cereal Research Centre, 195 Dafoe Rd., Winnipeg, MB, Canada, R3T 2M9

View larger version (76K): [in a new window]   Fig. 1. Examples of the segregation of A001 and A004 markers on the F2 progeny.

View larger version (79K): [in a new window]   Fig. 2. Comparison of mean lodging score of marker classes for individual markers, across eight populations.

View larger version (77K): [in a new window]   Fig. 3. Comparison of mean lodging score of marker combination classes across eight populations. T4: [A001(–) A004(–)] was omitted in Populations 1, 6, 7, and 9 because of a lack of F2:3 families in those populations

View larger version (20K): [in a new window]   Fig. 4. Distribution of F3 families from two unselected populations on the basis of their lodging score in the 2003 field trial at Outlook, SK. Lodging score of 4 (vertical line) was used as the threshold value for phenotypic selection for lodging resistance.