Marker-Assisted Breeding for Tree Fruit Quality
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 406
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant breeding; molecular markers; marker–trait association analysis; tree crops; genetic structure
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Interests: fruit quality; postharvest; phenotyping; fruit physiology; metabolomics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fruit quality is the result of the interplay of different features encompassing the physical (texture, color, size), chemical (taste and aroma), and nutritional/nutraceutical properties of the fruit. A comprehensive understanding of the genetic determinism of such quality traits and their interplay is a fundamental step toward the selection of novel cultivars with enhanced quality characteristics. The rapid advent of high-throughput genotyping platforms enabled both the simultaneous interrogation of hundreds of thousands of molecular markers using a dedicated SNP array or through whole-genome resequencing approaches. This unprecedented source of genotypic variability can be linked to quality traits of interest through marker-trait association analysis, such as genome-wide association study (GWAS), genome selection (GS), pedigree-based analysis (PBA), or bi-parental QTL approaches. The proposed Special Issue will cover recent findings related to the identification of QTLs linked to fruit quality and their exploitation for marker-assisted selection (MAS) for the definition of novel cultivars with superior characteristics.
Dr. Mario Di Guardo
Dr. Brian Farneti
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Molecular markers
- fruit texture
- volatile organic compounds
- ripening
- quantitative trait locus
