Variance heterogeneity genome-wide mapping for cadmium in bread wheat reveals novel genomic loci and epistatic interactions

Published in The Plant Genome, 2019

Recommended citation: Hussain W., Campbell M.T., Jarquin D., Walia H., Morota G. (2020) Variance heterogeneity genome-wide mapping for cadmium in bread wheat reveals novel genomic loci and epistatic interactions. The Plant Genome. doi:10.1002/tpg2.20011 http://malachycampbell.github.io/files/WH_2019_vQTL.pdf

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We applied variance-heterogeneity GWAS to identify several loci associated with grain cadmium concentration in bread wheat. Moreover, we showed that several of the vQTL loci were involved in pairwise interactions with other vQTL loci, indicating that epistasis may underlie differences in variance heterogeniety.