Whole genome resequencing of four Italian sweet pepper landraces provides insights on sequence variation in genes of agronomic value.

ABSTRACT: Sweet pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) is a high value crop and one of the most widely grown vegetables belonging to the Solanaceae family. In addition to commercial varieties and F₁ hybrids, a multitude of landraces are grown, whose genetic combination is the result of hundreds of years of random, environmental, and farmer selection. High genetic diversity exists in the landrace gene pool which however has scarcely been studied, thus bounding their cultivation. We re-sequenced four pepper inbred lines, within as many Italian landraces, which representative of as many fruit types: big sized blocky with sunken apex ('Quadrato') and protruding apex or heart shaped ('Cuneo'), elongated ('Corno') and smaller sized sub-spherical ('Tumaticot'). Each genomic sequence was obtained through Il

SUBMITTER: Acquadro A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7280500 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature