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Rice (Oryza sativa. L) genetic diversity for early vigor and drought ...

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Introductionpossible to breed <strong>for</strong> superior <strong>early</strong> <strong>vigor</strong> through high DR while maintaining high number of tillers<strong>and</strong> leaf size.Nevertheless, <strong>genetic</strong> linkages among these traits may be involved. While no <strong>genetic</strong> linkage wasfound among tillering <strong>and</strong> DR in previous studies on rice (Miyamoto et al. 2004). W. ter Steege et al.(2005) suggested on wheat that the apparent physiological linkages among traits constituting <strong>early</strong><strong>vigor</strong> at different scales (cell, leaf, whole plant) could have <strong>genetic</strong> bases. Tisné et al. (2008)suggested the same <strong>for</strong> Arabidopsis thaliana, the orientation of the trait linkages being dependent onthe alleles present on different QTLs involved. These recent findings emphasize that the <strong>genetic</strong>study of traits involved in plant morphogenesis <strong>and</strong> plasticity should not be addressed by looking at asingle trait (Granier et al. 2009). The data presented here <strong>for</strong> two rice <strong>diversity</strong> panels will provideanswers once the genomes of the populations have been densely genotyped <strong>and</strong> association studiesconducted <strong>for</strong> the traits phenotyped.While in Exp1 (field) tillering made a greater contribution than DR to biomass accumulation, it wasthe opposite in Exp2 (greenhouse, japonica panel). Leaf size had contributed less than tillering or DR.This confirms previous studies showing a stronger effect on plant growth of organ number (leaf ortiller) compared to organ size (Rebetzke et al. 1999; Morita et al. 2005; W. ter Steege et al. 2005).Size does matter, however, as shown by (Rebetzke et al. 1999; Rebetzke et al. 2007) <strong>for</strong> coleoptilelength in wheat seedlings having different <strong>vigor</strong>. In our study DR <strong>and</strong> first leaf length LL1 werenegatively <strong>and</strong> significantly correlated (p

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