“…The F 2 plants were grouped into the early class (n = 110) or the late one (n = 34) by separation at 106 DAE; the observed frequencies also fit a 3:1 ratio ( Table 2, n = 144, χ 2 = 0.15, major QTL, most likely corresponded to E1, accounted for 79% of the observed variation, in accordance with previous findings that E1 has the largest effect on soybean flowering (Cober et al, 1996;Liu et al, 2007;Xia et al, 2012;Tsubokura et al, 2013b). To test the possibility that the QTL on LG J, detected by Tasma et al (2001), corresponded to the E9 gene, we determined the genotype at the E1, E2, E3, and E4 loci, and the DNA markers ID1 and M6 adjacent to the E9 gene for Shensei and Corsoy. In the RILs with e1 nl , only one major QTL was identified, on Gm16 between SSR markers Satt215 and Satt431, similar to the position found by Liu et al (2007).…”