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How to clone yield genes?

Crop yield is the most important trait in both crop production and breeding. We never stop looking for genes that can increase yield. However, yield is a quantitative trait, controlled by so many genes and affected a lot of by environments. Therefore, the trait “yield” has very low heritability. There has been a lot QTL for yield, but how to clone yield genes? One fact for trait “yield” is that anything can affect it and usually it is just a pleiotropic effect of other genes, genes for heading date (escaping cold or drought), genes for grain number, genes for disease resistance, root length etc. Therefore, when we want to clone a gene underneath a yield QTL. The first thing is to find the trait it really represents. My advisor Dr. Dubcovsky mentioned one really inspiring way to do that: screen all aspects of traits, root, leaf, morphology etc, of two isogenic lines to find the most straight-forward trait!