A donor-specific QTL, exhibiting allelic variation for leaf sheath hairiness in a nested association mapping population, is located on barley chromosome 4H

• Stephanie Saade,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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• Burcu Kutlu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Ege University, Department of Biotechnology, Erzene, Bornova/İzmir, Turkey

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• Vera Draba,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Department of Plant Breeding, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

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• Karin Förster,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Department of Agronomy and Organic Farming, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

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• Erika Schumann,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Department of Plant Breeding, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

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• Mark Tester,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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• Klaus Pillen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Department of Plant Breeding, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

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• Andreas Maurer

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: andreas.maurer@landw.uni-halle.de

  Affiliation Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Department of Plant Breeding, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2916-7475

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