Bruising is the most common type of mechanical damage affecting fresh horticultural
produce, and reduces quality to the consumer and income to fruit and vegetable industries …

Noncommercial varieties of potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.) harbor genetic potential for
improvements of disease resistance and abiotic stress tolerance in commercial potato …

Background Association analysis is an alternative to conventional family-based methods to
detect the location of gene (s) or quantitative trait loci (QTL) and provides relatively high …

Background Eggplant is a powerful source of polyphenols which seems to play a key role in
the prevention of several human diseases, such as cancer and diabetes. Chlorogenic acid is …

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become a powerful tool for analyzing
complex traits in crop plants. The current study evaluates the efficacy of various GWAS …

Efficiency and precision in plant breeding can be enhanced by using diagnostic DNA-based
markers for the selection of superior cultivars. This technique has been applied to many …

Key message De novo genotyping in potato using methylation-sensitive GBS discovers
SNPs largely confined to genic or gene-associated regions and displays enhanced …

The oomycete Phytophthora infestans causes late blight of potato, which can completely
destroy the crop. Therefore, for the past 160 years, late blight has been the most important …

The potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the fourth most important crop food in the world and
Colombia has one of the most important collections of potato germplasm in the world (the …

Key message SNPs in candidate genes Pain-1, InvCD141 (invertases), SSIV (starch
synthase), StCDF1 (transcription factor), LapN (leucine aminopeptidase), and cytoplasm …