Vegetables are an integral part of the human diet worldwide. Traditional breeding
approaches have been used extensively to develop new cultivars of vegetables with …

Background Transposable elements are major evolutionary forces which can cause new
genome structure and species diversification. The role of transposable elements in the …

In recent years, plant molecular research on genetic mapping, gene tagging and cloning,
and marker‐assisted selection (MAS) have gained importance in crop improvement …

The development and application of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is in its
infancy for pepper. Here, a set of 15,000 SNPs were chosen from the resequencing data to …

Key message Segmental introgression and advanced backcross lines were developed and
validated as important tools for improving agronomically important traits in pepper, offering …

The yield of pepper plants (Capsicum spp.) is their most important trait and is affected by the
flower number and flowering time. Capsicum annuum produces a single flower per node …

Key message A QTL for aphid resistance on pepper chromosome 2 was identified and
validated. This QTL affects aphid survival and reproduction, and was fine mapped to a locus …

Chili pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) is an economically important horticultural crop in Korea;
however, various diseases, including Phytophthora root rot, anthracnose, powdery mildew …

Background Phytophthora root rot, caused by Phytophthora capsici, is a major disease
affecting Capsicum production worldwide. A recombinant inbred line (RIL) population …

Principal component analysis (PCA) with 36,621 polymorphic genome-anchored single
nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) identified collectively for Capsicum annuum and …