Structural variants (SVs) underlie important crop improvement and domestication traits.
However, resolving the extent, diversity, and quantitative impact of SVs has been …

Solanum pimpinellifolium (SP) is the wild progenitor of cultivated tomato. Because of its
remarkable stress tolerance and intense flavor, SP has been used as an important …

Effective utilization of wild relatives is key to overcoming challenges in genetic improvement
of cultivated tomato, which has a narrow genetic basis; however, current efforts to decipher …

Abstract Background Structural variations (SVs), a major resource of genomic variation, can
have profound consequences on phenotypic variation, yet the impacts of SVs remain largely …

Plant breeding is enhanced by the availability of molecular markers for rapid screening and
selection in populations. Identification of polymorphic loci in cultivated tomato (Solanum …

Although applied over extremely short timescales, artificial selection has dramatically altered
the form, physiology, and life history of cultivated plants. We have used RNAseq to define …

Structural variations (SVs) including gene presence/absence variations and copy number
variations are a common feature of genomes in plants and, together with single nucleotide …

Background Tomato has excellent genetic and genomic resources including a broad set of
Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) data and high-density genetic maps. In addition, emerging …

Sweetness and appearance of fresh fruits are key palatable and preference attributes for
consumers and are often controlled by multiple genes. However, fine-mapping the key loci …

Wild tomato species represent a rich gene pool for numerous desirable traits lost during
domestication. Here, we exploited an introgression population representing wild desert …