“…Different types of QTLs have been identified and/or cloned using NIL populations, such as the drought resistance, qDTY 2.2 (Henry et al, 2015); the thermotolerance, TT1 (Li et al, 2015); the cold tolerance, QTLs (Zhou et al, 2012), the grain type, GS3 (Fan et al, 2006) and GW2 (Song et al, 2007); the heading stage, Ghd7 (Xue et al, 2008) and qHD19 (Yang et al, 2020); the spike type, DEP1 (Huang et al, 2009); the grain production, Cn1a (Ashikari et al, 2005) and 99 QTLs for different agronomic traits (Furuta et al, 2014). Although a number of plant height related genes/QTLs have been identified, and these genes/QTLs tend to have a function in hormone biosynthesis pathways including gibberellic acid, brassinosteroid, and strigolactone (Shearman et al, 2019), there are also hundreds of QTLs where the underlying cause remains unknown (Lei et al, 2018). In the present study, we developed 176 NILs with a genetic background from the indica rice cultivar Jiafuzhan.…”