TECHNICALADVANCE/RESOURCE
QTL-seq:rapidmappingofquantitativetraitlociinriceby
wholegenomeresequencingofDNAfromtwobulked
populations
HirokiTakagi1,2,AkiraAbe2,3,KentaroYoshida1,ShunichiKosugi1,SatoshiNatsume1,ChikakoMitsuoka1,AikoUemura1,
HiroeUtsushi1,MulunehTamiru1,ShoheiTakuno4,HidekiInnan5,LilianaM.Cano6,SophienKamoun6andRyoheiTerauchi1,*1IwateBiotechnologyResearchCenter,Kitakami,Iwate,024-0003,Japan,2UnitedGraduateSchoolofIwateUniversity,Morioka,Iwate,020-8550,Japan,3IwateAgriculturalResearchCenter,Kitakami,Iwate,024-0003,Japan,4DepartmentofPlantSciences,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis,CA95616,USA,5GraduateUniversityforAdvancedStudies,Hayama,Japan,and6TheSainsburyLaboratory,NorwichResearchPark,Norwich,UK
Received7September2012;revised13December2012;accepted20December2012;publishedonline05January2013.*Forcorrespondence(e-mailterauchi@ibrc.or.jp).