Boosting grapevine breeding for climate-smart viticulture: from genetic resources to predictive genomics.

ABSTRACT: The multifaceted nature of climate change is increasing the urgency to select resilient grapevine varieties, or generate new, fitter cultivars, to withstand a multitude of new challenging conditions. The attainment of this goal is hindered by the limiting pace of traditional breeding approaches, which require decades to result in new selections. On the other hand, marker-assisted breeding has proved useful when it comes to traits governed by one or few genes with great effects on the phenotype, but its efficacy is still restricted for complex traits controlled by many loci. On these premises, innovative strategies are emerging which could help guide selection, taking advantage of the genetic diversity within the Vitis genus in its entirety. Multiple germplasm collections are also av

SUBMITTER: Magon G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10750425 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature