“…Significant and stable MTAs for PV were mainly clustered to chromosomes 2B, 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B, 5A, 7A, 7B and 7D (Supplementary Table S3); several were consistent with previous studies (Udall et al, 1999;Sun et al, 2008;Zhang et al, 2009;Deng et al, 2014). Wx-B1 gene (TRAESCS4A02G418200, chr4A, 688,097,145-688,100,962 bp) encodes granule-bound starch synthase, generating a higher PV and BD (Briney et al, 1998;Araki et al, 2000;Batey et al, 2002;Miura et al, 2002;Ram and Sharma, 2013). Some studies found the QTL for starch pasting properties near Wx-B1 on chromosome 4A (Batey et al, 2002;Mccartney et al, 2006).…”