Root restriction accelerates genomic target identification in quinoa under controlled conditions.

ABSTRACT: Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) is a nutritious and resilient crop that displays a high genetic and phenotypic variation. As the popularity of this crop increases, there is a growing need to integrate classic and modern breeding tools to favor its improvement. We tested root restriction as a method to reduce plant size and enable high-throughput phenotypic screening of large sets of quinoa plants under controlled conditions. We verified how increasing root restriction does not affect the prediction of field behavior with respect to other standard greenhouse cultivation procedures. We then combined the phenotypic information obtained with our root restriction system with whole-genome re-sequencing data to characterize a quinoa diversity panel of 100 accessions and showed that phenotypic data ob

SUBMITTER: Visintainer D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11998636 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature