“…Then, major changes in anthesis time may not be as relevant as fine adjustments. The importance of Eps genes may be even higher than that of the major Vrn and Ppd sensitivity genes when the need is to fine adjust phenology because they normally have a relatively small effect (Bullrich et al, 2002;Griffiths et al, 2009;Lewis et al, 2008;Ochagavía et al, 2018b). Indeed, due to their relatively subtle effect, Eps genes may have gone undetected during the course of selection (Zikhali et al, 2014), and are mostly identified as QTLs (Zikhali et al, 2014).…”