QTL analysis for chalkiness of rice and fine mapping of a candidate gene for qACE9

Rice

Table 1 Variations of phenotypes between parents and among RIL in Hainan and Hangzhou

Site	Variety/Population	ACE (cm²)	DCE (%)	PGWC (%)
Hainan	9311	0.18±0.03	2.8±0.6	16.0±2.8
	PA64s	0.44±0.04 ^b	11.7±0.8 ^b	27.0±4.2 ^a
	RIL	0.25±0.22	11.5±20.2	22.3±28.8
Hangzhou	9311	0.13±0.03	19.0±5.0	20.0±4.3
	PA64s	0.36±0.03 ^b	54.0±8.0 ^b	30.0±3.2 ^a
	RIL	0.27±0.11	14.4±13.7	42.6±28.1

Mean ± SD (n = 6 for parents and n = 104 for RIL)
^a and ^b indicate the least significant difference at 0.05 and 0.01 probability level compared with 9311 in Hainan or Hangzhou, respectively