“…Equal amounts of genomic DNA from 10 extremely short plants and 10 extremely tall plants from the F 2 mapping population were pooled to construct the dwarf bulk and tall bulk, respectively. SSR markers were synthesized based on sequence information from IPK Gatersleben (prefix: gwm and gdm; Röder et al, 1998;Pestsova et al, 2000), the Wheat Microsatellite Consortium (prefix: wmc; Gupta et al, 2002), the John Innes Centre (prefix: psp; Bryan et al, 1997), DuPont (prefix: dupw;Eujayl et al, 2002), R. Ward (prefix: barc; Song et al, 2005), INRA Clermont-Ferrand (prefix: cfd, cfa, and gpw;Guyomarc'h et al, 2002;Sourdille et al, 2003Sourdille et al, , 2005. PCR was performed in a volume of 10 μL in a Bio-Rad thermocycler.…”