Mining elite genes within rice landraces is of importance for the improvement of cultivated rice. An association mapping for12 agronomic traits was carried out using a core collection of rice consisting of 100 landraces (Panel 1) with 44 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. Our results showed that (1) 76significant (P, ) trait-marker associations were detected using mixed linear model (MLM) within Panel 1 in two years, among which 32% were identical with previously mapped QTLs, and 11 significant associations explained ratio of genetic variation; (2) A total of seven aforementioned trait-marker associations were verified within Panel 2 and 3 when using a general linear model (GLM) and 55 SSR markers of the 76 significant trait-marker associations. | Association mapping for important agronomic traits in core collection of rice Oryza sativa L. with SSR markers
