supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30921091,30830064);the National Special Program for Research of Transgenic Plants of China (2009ZX08009-103B);the National Program on the Development of Basic Research (2010CB125901);the National Special Key Project of China on Functional Genomics of Major Plants and Animals (2012AA100103)
Grain yield is one of the most important indexes in rice breeding, which is governed by quantitative trait loci (QTLs). Different map- ping populations have been used to explore the QTLs controlling yield related tr...