title: Genetic basis of grain yield heterosis in an "immortalized F₂" maize population.
abstract: Genetic basis of grain yield heterosis relies on the cumulative effects of dominance, overdominance, and epistasis in maize hybrid Yuyu22. Heterosis, i.e., when F1 hybrid phenotypes are superior to those of the parents, continues to play a critical role in boosting global grain yield. Notwithstanding our limited insight into the genetic and molecular basis of heterosis, it has been exploited extensively using different breeding approaches. In this study, we investigated the genetic underpinnings of grain yield and its components using "immortalized F2" and recombinant inbred line populations derived from the elite hybrid Yuyu22. A high-density linkage map consisting of 3,184 bins was used to assess (1) the additive and additive-by-additive effects determined using recombinant inbred lines; (2) the dominance and dominance-by-dominance effects from a mid-parent heterosis dataset; and (3) the various genetic effects in the "immortalized F2" population. Compared with a low-density simple sequence repeat map, the bin map identified more quantitative trait loci, with higher LOD scores and better accuracy of detecting quantitative trait loci. The bin map showed that, among all traits, dominance was more important to heterosis than other genetic effects. The importance of overdominance/pseudo-overdominance was proportional to the amount of heterosis. In addition, epistasis contributed to heterosis as well. Phenotypic variances explained by the QTLs detected were close to the broad-sense heritabilities of the observed traits. Comparison of the analyzed results obtained for the "immortalized F2" population with those for the mid-parent heterosis dataset indicated identical genetic modes of action for mid-parent heterosis and grain yield performance of the hybrid.
authors.affiliation: National Maize Improvement Center, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China.
authors.forename: Tingting
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Ning
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tong
authors.forename: Qingchun
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Xiaohong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Jihua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Jiankang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jiansheng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jianbing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yan
mesh_terms: D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D004843:Epistasis, Genetic; D005799:Genes, Dominant; D006823:Hybrid Vigor; D006824:Hybridization, Genetic; D008126:Lod Score; D010641:Phenotype; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci; D012639:Seeds / Q000235:genetics; D003313:Zea mays / Q000235:genetics*
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