Multi-Locus Genome-Wide Association Studies Reveal Fruit Quality Hotspots in Peach Genome.

ABSTRACT: Peach is one of the most important fruit crops in the world, with the global annual production about 24.6 million tons. The United States is the fourth-largest producer after China, Spain, and Italy. Peach consumption has decreased over the last decade, most likely due to inconsistent quality of the fruit on the market. Thus, marker-assisted selection for fruit quality traits is highly desired in fresh market peach breeding programs and one of the major goals of the RosBREED project. The ability to use DNA information to select for desirable traits would enable peach breeders to efficiently plan crosses and select seedlings with desired quality traits early in the selection process before fruiting. Therefore, we assembled a multi-locus genome wide association study (GWAS) of 620 individual

SUBMITTER: da Silva Linge C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7959719 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature