“…differences in cold tolerance). Many QTLs for cold tolerance in rice have been discovered, and they have been found on most chromosomes (except chromosome 6) using different combinations of parent cultivars; they have been found on chromosome 1 (Takeuchi et al , Andaya and Mackill , Xu et al , Kuroki et al , ), chromosome 2 (Andaya and Mackill ), chromosome 3 (Andaya and Mackill , Dai et al , Suh et al , Mori et al , Shirasawa et al ), chromosome 4 (Saito et al , , , Xu et al ), chromosome 5 (Andaya and Mackill , Xu et al ), chromosome 7 (Takeuchi et al , Xu et al , Suh et al , Zhou et al ), chromosome 8 (Kuroki et al , ), chromosome 9 (Suh et al ), chromosome 10 (Dai et al , Ye et al ), chromosome 11 (Takeuchi et al , Oh et al ) and chromosome 12 (Andaya and Mackill ). The complex nature of cold tolerance mechanisms at a molecular level is suggested by the genome‐wide distribution of these many QTLs.…”