A Dissertation Presented to the Academic Degree Committee of Sichuan Agricultural University in Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Drought is the most important abiotic factors limiting maize production. The effective approach to solve this problem is breeding and popularizing variety for drought tolerance. However, conventional selection for drought tolerance is inefficient because that drought tolerance is a complicated quantitative trait and required special environment to identify. With the development and application of molecular markers, MAS(molecular assistant selection) supply a useful tool to the breeding for drought tolerance...