Table 1 Genotyping of backcross progenies for three QTL and recurrent parent genome recovery percentage in foreground positive progenies.

Generation

No. of plants

scored

No. of progenies

heterozygotes

for 3 target

QTL

Expected %

of recurrent

parent genome

to selected

backcross plants

Average recipient

parent genome

content (%) in the

backcross

progenies

Maximum genome

recovery (%)

of recipient

parent in

the selected

progenies

Chi-square

(χ²)