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                3.2 Phenotypic identification
              
            
            
              TTSW
            
            
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              5 was mated with Jian 3 and Chuanmai 55 to
            
            
              generate hybrid F
            
            
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              plants of 47 and 11, respectively.
            
            
              All of F
            
            
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              plants self-crossing were to generate F
            
            
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              plants of 1107 and 176, respectively. The panicle
            
            
              phenotypes of F
            
            
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              and F
            
            
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              were identified in ear
            
            
              maturity. The phenotypic methods were as following:
            
            
              harvesting the mature individual, measuring the
            
            
              number of triple spikelet per ear and total number of
            
            
              spikelet of whole ear to calculate the percentage by
            
            
              the number of triple spikelet to total of spikelet, the
            
            
              average percentage of each plant was assigned to be a
            
            
              phenotypic data of each ear.
            
            
              
                3.3 DNA extraction and SSR analysis
              
            
            
              Genomic DNA was extracted from the parents and F
            
            
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              individuals derived from TTSW
            
            
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              5/Jian 3 by using
            
            
              CTAB method. 944 SSR markers encoded with Barc,
            
            
              Xgwm, Xgdm, Xwmc, Xcfd etc. (Röder et al., 1998;
            
            
              Pestsova et al., 2000; Somers et al., 2004; Song et al.,
            
            
              2005) applied to scan the polymorphism between
            
            
              TTSW
            
            
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              5 and Jian 3. DNA pool of triple spikelet and
            
            
              DNA pool of common spikelet were established by
            
            
              using eight triple spikelet individuals and the common
            
            
              according to the results of phenotypic identification,
            
            
              respectively, find the polymorphism locus between the
            
            
              traits of triple spikelet and common spikelet by using
            
            
              the bulked segregant analysis (BSA) method.
            
            
              PCR reaction was performed in the total volume of
            
            
              20 μL containing 1×buffer (100 mmol/L Tris-HCl,
            
            
              pH 8.3, 1.5 mmol/LMgCl
            
            
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              ), 0.2 mmol/L dNTPs, 50 ng
            
            
              random primers, 1 U
            
            
              
                Taq
              
            
            
              DNA polymer enzyme,
            
            
              50~100 ng template DNA. PCR amplification procedures
            
            
              were following as 94
            
            
              ℃
            
            
              pre-denaturing for 5 min and
            
            
              then following 35 cycles as 94
            
            
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              denaturing for 1 min,
            
            
              50
            
            
              ℃
            
            
              /55
            
            
              ℃
            
            
              /60
            
            
              ℃
            
            
              annealing for 1 min, 72
            
            
              ℃
            
            
              extending
            
            
              for 1 min and finally 72
            
            
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              extending for 10 min. PCR
            
            
              amplification was carried out in a PTC
            
            
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              200, SSR
            
            
              primers were synthesized by the TaKaRa Company.
            
            
              PCR products was scored by 6% polyacrylamide gel
            
            
              electrophoresis with 1×TBE of electrophoresis buffer
            
            
              and 400 V voltages for 40 min, stained with nitrate
            
            
              silver and digitalized by digital camera.
            
            
              
                3.4 Genetic linkage map and QTL analysis
              
            
            
              Linkage map was constructed by the Software of Map
            
            
              Manager QTXb20, recombination rate was converted
            
            
              to genetic distance (centiMorgan, cM) with Kosambi
            
            
              function. QTL were detected by using composite
            
            
              interval mapping of QTL Cartographer 2.5 software.
            
            
              
                Author’s contribution
              
            
            
              JL completed the experimental design, result analysis and
            
            
              manuscript preparation and revision; JW, HTW and XRH are
            
            
              the main executor of the experimental work, completed data
            
            
              analysis and involved in writing. WYY conceived the project
            
            
              and designed the experiments as well as wrote and revised
            
            
              manuscript. All authors had read and agreed the final text.
            
            
              
                Acknowledgement
              
            
            
              This study was jointly supported by the National Foundation
            
            
              of Natural Sciences (30871532), National Key Basic Research
            
            
              Projects (2011CB100100), Specific Funds of Modern Agricultural
            
            
              Technology System (CARS
            
            
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              41), Sichuan Provincial
            
            
              Breeding Project, Sichuan International Cooperation Project
            
            
              (2010HH0052, 2011HH0026) and Youth Fund and Excellent
            
            
              Breeding Articles of Sichuan Province Finance.
            
            
              
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