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Drought is one of the major abiotic stresses that severely limit barley production which is well adapted to drought conditions in the Mediterranean basin where the unpredictable climatic conditions, particularly rainfall, rainfall distribution and both high and low temperatures, may lead to dramatic decreases in yield. Landraces and wild species, represent an important source of variation for adaptive traits that may contribute to increased yield and yield stability under drought conditions. The study includes mapping of Quantitative QTLs for agronomical and morpho-physiological traits associated with drought tolerance. A total of 76 QTLs identified to 11 traits that describe grain yield, biological yield, harvest index, kernel weight, seed per head, days to heading, kernel filling duration, growth vigor, growth habit, lodging and plant height were mapped using RIL population Arta x Harmal-2//Esp/1808-4L which was evaluated at six dry and semi-dry areas over three years.The linkage map contained 254 markers (80 SSR, 174 AFLP) spanning 691cM. Eighty-Four markers’ loci (38 SSR and 46 AFLP) were used for QTLs mapping using the Simple Interval Mapping (SIM) and Simplified Composite Interval Mapping (sCIM). The QTLs which explained the largest part of the phenotypic variation in the dry areas (rainfall |
