Marker-Assisted Selection in Breeding for Fruit Trait Improvement: A Review.

ABSTRACT: Breeding fruit species is time-consuming and expensive. With few exceptions, trees are likely the worst species to work with in terms of genetics and breeding. Most are characterized by large trees, long juvenile periods, and intensive agricultural practice, and environmental variability plays an important role in the heritability evaluations of every single important trait. Although vegetative propagation allows for the production of a significant number of clonal replicates for the evaluation of environmental effects and genotype × environment interactions, the spaces required for plant cultivation and the intensity of work necessary for phenotypic surveys slow down the work of researchers. Fruit breeders are very often interested in fruit traits: size, weight, sugar and acid content, ri

SUBMITTER: De Mori G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10219056 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature