The Genetics of Differential Gene Expression Related to Fruit Traits in Strawberry (Fragaria ×ananassa).

ABSTRACT: Octoploid strawberry (Fragaria ×ananassa) is a major specialty crop under intense annual selection for traits relating to plant vigor and fruit quality. Most functional validation experiments rely on transgenic or transient gene expression assays in the mature receptacle. These findings are not typically translatable to breeding without identifying a natural genetic source of transcript level variation, and developing reliable markers for selection in octoploids. Expression QTL (eQTL) analysis is a genetic/transcriptomic association approach for identifying sequence variants predicting differential expression. This eQTL study analyzed a wide array of mature receptacle-expressed genes, encompassing the majority of total mature receptacle transcript accumulation and almost all strawbe

SUBMITTER: Barbey C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7025477 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature