3.5.3. QTLs for Percent Boll Set on Second Position along Sympodia (PBS)

In the F2 population of one QTL, *qPBS1*, the total influencing number of nodes was identified with a LOD score of 18.21 and it was located on chromosome 26. Phenotypic variance in this region was 14.56% (Table 6). The additive value for this QTL was 0.69.
