… of yield QTL in wild species of crop plants. We particularly draw on examples from work on
rice … The success of yield improvement by AB–QTL strategy in beans was mainly attributed to …

… indicates that wild rice genes could markedly improve the salt tolerance of cultivated rice. …
To identify candidate genes for salt tolerance in the QTL regions, we analyzed the sequence …

… study in rice to determine the potential for using the wild relative, O. rufipogon, to improve
key … Our QTL mapping results suggest that these trait-improving QTL alleles, acting singly or …

… of cultivated rice. Recently, many genes and QTLs have been mined from the wild rice, which
… mining elite genes and QTLs from wild rice for cultivar improvement in breeding programs. …

O ver the course of thousands of years, human beings domesticated plant species by selecting
desirable individuals from populations of wild plants. Seeds from the selected individuals …

… kinds of populations and QTL information including its genome … QTLs, and discuss their
applications in rice improvement in … diverse cultivars and wild rice were used for QTL mapping. …

… on the important wild rice species harbouring genes/QTLs for agriculturally important … wild
rice species harbouring genes/QTLs for agriculturally important traits and their utilization in rice …

… day high-yielding rice germplasm impedes further improvement in productivity. Incorporation
of potentially favorable alleles from wild ancestors of rice into improved genotypes for …

… [12] indicated that 51% and 56% alleles of common wild rice could improve the agronomic
… the 49 QTLs associated yield and their components could improve the traits of cultivated rice. …

… Additionally, at least 20 quantitative trait loci (QTLs)/genes (~40%) associated with rice …
genes can enhance trait improvement in both cultivated and wild rice through hybridization. …