Since the inception of the theory and conceptual framework of genomic selection (GS),
extensive research has been done on evaluating its efficiency for utilization in crop …

Among Citrus species, the sweet orange (Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck) is the most important
in terms of production volumes and cultivated areas. Oranges are particularly appreciated …

Citrus species among the most important and widely consumed fruit in the world due to
Vitamin C, essential oil glands, and flavonoids. Highly variable simple sequence repeats …

Functional foods are natural products of plants that have health benefits beyond necessary
nutrition. Functional foods are abundant in fruits, vegetables, spices, beverages and some …

The breeding of tropical fruit trees for improving fruit traits is complicated, due to the long
juvenile phase, generation cycle, parthenocarpy, polyploidy, polyembryony, heterozygosity …

The Mediterranean basin is especially sensitive to the adverse outcomes of climate change
and especially to variations in rainfall patterns and the incidence of extremely high …

Cooking time of the common bean is an important trait for consumer preference, with
implications for nutrition, health, and environment. For efficient germplasm improvement …

Texture is a complex trait and a major component of fruit quality in apple. While the major
effect of MdPG1, a gene controlling firmness, has already been exploited in elite cultivars …

Breeding of fruit trees is hindered by their large size and long juvenile period. Genome-wide
association study (GWAS) and genomic selection (GS) are promising methods for …

Grafting is typically utilized to merge adapted seedling rootstocks with highly productive
clonal scions. This process implies the interaction of multiple genomes to produce a unique …