“…For HDT, diverse germplasm and populations with heat‐tolerant parents have been evaluated to identify tolerant resources and their underlying genetic architecture (Redoña et al, 2009; Jagadish et al, 2010; Ye et al, 2012; Ye, Tenorio, Argayoso, et al, 2015; Ye, Tenorio, Redoña, et al, 2015; Hirabayashi et al, 2015; reviewed by Xu, Henry, & Sreenivasulu, 2020). Among them, N22 and Giza178 contributed qHTSF4.1 which confers high spikelet fertility under HDT and has been introgressed into the mega variety IR64 (Ye, Tenorio, Redoña, et al, 2015) and Indian variety White Ponni (Vivitha, Raveendran, & Vijayalakshmi, 2017). In this study, some of the advanced qHTSF4.1 ‐IR64 introgression lines (entry V4 and V8) outperformed the checks (IR64 and N22) under both ambient and HNT conditions.…”