Metabolomic Markers for the Early Selection of Coffea canephora Plants with Desirable Cup Quality Traits.

ABSTRACT: Genetic improvement of coffee plants represents a great challenge for breeders. Conventional breeding takes a too long time for responding timely to market demands, climatic variations and new biological threads. The correlation of genetic markers with the plant phenotype and final product quality is usually poor. Additionally, the creation and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are often legally restricted and rejected by customers that demand natural products. Therefore, we developed a non-targeted metabolomics approach to accelerate conventional breeding. Our main idea was to identify highly heritable metabolites in Coffea canephora seedlings, which are linked to coffee cup quality. We employed a maternal half-sibs approach to estimate the metabolites heritability in open-poll

SUBMITTER: Gamboa-Becerra R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6835713 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature