Genetic Diversity of Wild and Cultivated Muscadine Grapes (Vitis rotundifolia Michx.).

ABSTRACT: The muscadine (Vitis rotundifolia syn. Muscadinia rotundifolia) is an American grape species native to the southeastern United States that has been cultivated for centuries. Muscadines are one of three grape species in subgenus Muscadinia with a chromosome number of 2n = 40 (V. rotundifolia, Vitis munsoniana, and Vitis popenoei), making them genetically distinct from the European wine and table grape (Vitis vinifera) and other species in subgenus Euvitis. Crop improvement efforts have been continuous since the late 19th century, yet the germplasm that served as the foundation for early muscadine breeding efforts was sourced from a relatively small portion of their native range, mostly in the coastal plains of North Carolina. Th

SUBMITTER: Buck K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8996184 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature