Genotyping-by-Sequencing Identifies Historical Breeding Stages of the Recently Domesticated American Cranberry.

ABSTRACT: The cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.) is a North American fruit crop domesticated less than 200 years ago. The USDA began the first cranberry breeding program in response to false-blossom disease in 1929, but after the first generation of cultivars were released in the 1950s, the program was discontinued. Decades later, renewed efforts for breeding cranberry cultivars at Rutgers University and the University of Wisconsin yielded the first modern cultivars in the 2000's. Phenotypic data suggests that current cultivars have changed significantly in terms of fruiting habits compared to original selections from endemic populations. However, due to the few breeding and selection cycles and short domestication period of the crop, it is unclear how much cultivated germplasm differs ge

SUBMITTER: Diaz-Garcia L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7772218 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature