“…QTL conferring internode length are reported to be linked with the genes vrs1 (2HL), Ppd-H1 (2HS), uzu (3HL), sgh1 (4HL), Ema5 (5HL), sgh2 (5HL), qCUL.ak-7H (7HL) and dsp1 (7HS) in barley (Sameri et al, 2006(Sameri et al, , 2009. Examining the 2H, 3H, 5H, 6H, and 7H linkage maps of Varshney et al (2007) and GrainGenes2.0 (http://wheat.pw.usda.gov) revealed that the location of Qion3-9 is close to the gene uzu on chromosome 3HL, and thirteen QTL for the internode length are different from those QTL reported by Sameri et al (2006Sameri et al ( , 2009. In our study, all seven plant height components showed a highly significant positive correlation with each other (Table 3).…”