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Query: Genetic control of plasticity of oil yield for combined abiotic stresses
  using a joint approach of crop modeling and genome-wide association   Understanding the genetic basis of phenotypic plasticity is crucial for
predicting and managing climate change effects on wild plants and crops. Here,
we combined crop modeling and quantitative genetics to study the genetic
control of oil yield plasticity for multiple abiotic stresses in sunflower.
  First we developed stress indicators to characterize 14 environments for
three abiotic stresses (cold, drought and nitrogen) using the SUNFLO crop model
and phenotypic variations of three commercial varieties. The computed plant
stress indicators better explain yield variation than descriptors at the
climatic or crop levels. In those environments, we observed oil yield of 317
sunflower hybrids and regressed it with three selected stress indicators. The
slopes of cold stress norm reaction were used as plasticity phenotypes in the
following genome-wide association study.
  Among the 65,534 tested SNP, we identified nine QTL controlling oil yield
plasticity to cold stress. Associated SNP are localized in genes previously
shown to be involved in cold stress responses: oligopeptide transporters, LTP,
cystatin, alternative oxidase, or root development. This novel approach opens
new perspectives to identify genomic regions involved in
genotype-by-environment interaction of a complex traits to multiple stresses in
realistic natural or agronomical conditions.

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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: nlin
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex