“…Early research has shown that the FLA trait is controlled by a pair of major genes and a number of minor gene pairs, with a small angle being partially dominant (Shen, 1983 ). To date, 63 quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for FLA have been identified based on linkage analysis, including 9, 7, 6, 4, 4, 5, 4, 7, 6, 0, 8, and 3 on chromosomes 1–12, respectively ( Supplementary Table 1 ) (Li et al, 1999 ; Yan et al, 1999 ; Dong et al, 2003 ; Kobayashi et al, 2003 ; Luo et al, 2008 ; Zhang et al, 2008 , 2013 ; Cai, 2009 ; Hu et al, 2012 ; Wang et al, 2012 ; Bian et al, 2014 ; Zou et al, 2014 ; Zhu et al, 2016 ; Ham et al, 2019 ). In addition, 100 QTLs for FLA have been detected based on association analysis (Huang et al, 2010 ; Chen et al, 2012 ; Lu et al, 2015 ; Dong H. J. et al, 2018 ; Dong Z. Y. et al, 2018 ).…”