From forest to field: perennial fruit crop domestication

AJ Miller, BL Gross - American journal of botany, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Archaeological and genetic analyses of seed‐propagated annual
crops have greatly advanced our understanding of plant domestication and evolution …

Factors Affecting Quality and Health Promoting Compounds during Growth and Postharvest Life of Sweet Cherry (Prunus avium L.)

S Correia, R Schouten, AP Silva… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Sweet cherries are attractive fruits due to their taste, color, nutritional value, and beneficial
health effects. Sweet cherry is a highly perishable fruit and all quality attributes and the level …

A cytochrome P450 regulates a domestication trait in cultivated tomato

M Chakrabarti, NA Zhang, C Sauvage… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Domestication of crop plants had effects on human lifestyle and agriculture. However, little is
known about the underlying molecular mechanisms accompanying the changes in fruit …

Bayesian QTL analyses using pedigreed families of an outcrossing species, with application to fruit firmness in apple

M Bink, J Jansen, M Madduri, RE Voorrips… - Theoretical and applied …, 2014 - Springer
Key message Proof of concept of Bayesian integrated QTL analyses across pedigree-
related families from breeding programs of an outbreeding species. Results include QTL …

Multiple-population QTL mapping of maturity and fruit-quality traits reveals LG4 region as a breeding target in sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.)

A Calle, A Wünsch - Horticulture research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Sweet cherry maturity date and fruit quality are relevant traits for its marketability, transport,
and consumer acceptance. In this work, sweet cherry fruit development time, maturity date …

RosBREED: bridging the chasm between discovery and application to enable DNA-informed breeding in rosaceous crops

AF Iezzoni, J McFerson, J Luby, K Gasic… - Horticulture …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The Rosaceae crop family (including almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, peach, pear, plum,
raspberry, rose, strawberry, sweet cherry, and sour cherry) provides vital contributions to …

Development and evaluation of a genome-wide 6K SNP array for diploid sweet cherry and tetraploid sour cherry

C Peace, N Bassil, D Main, S Ficklin, UR Rosyara… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
High-throughput genome scans are important tools for genetic studies and breeding
applications. Here, a 6K SNP array for use with the Illumina Infinium® system was …

Cell number regulator genes in Prunus provide candidate genes for the control of fruit size in sweet and sour cherry

P De Franceschi, T Stegmeir, A Cabrera… - Molecular …, 2013 - Springer
Striking increases in fruit size distinguish cultivated descendants from small-fruited wild
progenitors for fleshy fruited species such as Solanum lycopersicum (tomato) and Prunus …

Quantitative trait loci and underlying candidate genes controlling agronomical and fruit quality traits in octoploid strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa)

Y Zorrilla-Fontanesi, A Cabeza, P Domínguez… - Theoretical and applied …, 2011 - Springer
Breeding for fruit quality traits in strawberry (Fragaria× ananassa, 2 n= 8 x= 56) is complex
due to the polygenic nature of these traits and the octoploid constitution of this species. In …

Current applications, challenges, and perspectives of marker-assisted seedling selection in Rosaceae tree fruit breeding

S Ru, D Main, K Evans, C Peace - Tree Genetics & Genomes, 2015 - Springer
Most rosaceous tree fruit have long juvenility and large plant sizes, which makes traditional
seedling selection (TSS), relying on phenotypic evaluation alone, relatively time-consuming …