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Genetic determinants of metabolites related to drought tolerance in maize.

Water deficit or drought is one of the most serious abiotic stresses of plant development and greatly reduces crop production, and the plant’s response to this deficit leads to many metabolic changes. To dissect the genetic basis of these metabolic traits in maize, we performed a genome-wide association analysis of drought-related traits using 156,599 SNPs in 318 maize inbred lines. In total, 123 significant SNP/trait associations (P ≤ 6.39E−6) involving 63 loci were identified for related metabolic and physiological traits in multiple tissues and different environments under two irrigation conditions. Of the 63, 23 loci demonstrated a significant interaction effect between QTL and water status, indicating that these metabolite-associated loci …