Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

Siva S Ammiraju Jetty

Igor Falak

Jayantilal Devabhai Patel

Lomas Tulsieram

David George Charne

Maria Laura Mayor

Kevin A Fengler

Norbert Brugiere

Sarah Atwood

David Alan Hessel

Xiuqiang Huang

Sunita R Chilakamarri

Jonathan Myrvold

This disclosure provides methods and compositions for identifyingplants that have a native deletion of the INDEHISCENT gene (BnIND-A) located on chromosome A of. Also provided are methods of improving one or more agronomic characteristics such as pod shatter and breeding methods for introducing a pod shatter tolerant phenotype inplants and/or their progeny.

Pod shatter tolerance inplants

Various methods and compositions are provided for identifying and/or selecting aplant or germplasm with or without a cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) trait. In certain embodiments, the method comprises detecting at least one allele of one or more marker locus within or linked to a QTL associated with CMS. In further embodiments, the method comprises crossing a selectedplant with a recurrentparent plant and selecting progeny with CMS.

cytoplasmic male sterility markers and loci

Markers associated with shatter resistance inare provided. Methods of identifying shatter resistant and susceptible plants, using the markers are provided. Methods for identifying and isolating QTLs are a feature of the invention, as are QTLs associated with shatter resistance in

QTLs associated with and methods for identifying shatter resistance in canola

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Johnston, IA, United States of America

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