Description:
For both the BC3 and BC4 populations, Jefferson, the recurrent parent, was used as the female during backcrossing and selected ILs were used as pollen parents, except for family 85 (targeting the yield QTL, yld2.1) where asynchrony of flowering required that Jefferson be used as the male. Markers across the target QTL regions were used to screen BC populations each generation to eliminate the 50% of plants that did not carry the O. rufipogon allele. Selected plants with the target introgression at the QTL were then screened for other introgressions to identify lines carrying the least amount of O. rufipogon DNA in non-target regions.