Crop breeding chips and genotyping platforms: progress, challenges, and perspectives

A Rasheed, Y Hao, X Xia, A Khan, Y Xu, RK Varshney… - Molecular plant, 2017 - cell.com
There is a rapidly rising trend in the development and application of molecular marker
assays for gene mapping and discovery in field crops and trees. Thus far, more than 50 SNP …

The domestication and evolutionary ecology of apples

A Cornille, T Giraud, MJM Smulders, I Roldán-Ruiz… - Trends in Genetics, 2014 - cell.com
The cultivated apple is a major fruit crop in temperate zones. Its wild relatives, distributed
across temperate Eurasia and growing in diverse habitats, represent potentially useful …

15 years of GDR: New data and functionality in the Genome Database for Rosaceae

S Jung, T Lee, CH Cheng, K Buble… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Genome Database for Rosaceae (GDR, https://www. rosaceae. org) is an
integrated web-based community database resource providing access to publicly available …

LinkImpute: fast and accurate genotype imputation for nonmodel organisms

D Money, K Gardner, Z Migicovsky… - G3: Genes …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Obtaining genome-wide genotype data from a set of individuals is the first step in many
genomic studies, including genome-wide association and genomic selection. All genotyping …

Development and evaluation of SoySNP50K, a high-density genotyping array for soybean

Q Song, DL Hyten, G Jia, CV Quigley, EW Fickus… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The objective of this research was to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and to
develop an Illumina Infinium BeadChip that contained over 50,000 SNPs from soybean …

SNP discovery through next-generation sequencing and its applications

S Kumar, TW Banks, S Cloutier - Crop Breeding, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Molecular markers are widely used in plant genetic research and breeding. Single
Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are currently the marker of choice due to their large …

The Draft Genome Sequence of European Pear (Pyrus communis L. 'Bartlett')

D Chagné, RN Crowhurst, M Pindo, A Thrimawithana… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
We present a draft assembly of the genome of European pear (Pyrus communis)'Bartlett'.
Our assembly was developed employing second generation sequencing technology (Roche …

An ancient duplication of apple MYB transcription factors is responsible for novel red fruit-flesh phenotypes

D Chagné, K Lin-Wang, RV Espley, RK Volz… - Plant …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Anthocyanin accumulation is coordinated in plants by a number of conserved transcription
factors. In apple (Malus× domestica), an R2R3 MYB transcription factor has been shown to …

Development and Validation of a 20K Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Whole Genome Genotyping Array for Apple (Malus × domestica Borkh)

L Bianco, A Cestaro, DJ Sargent, E Banchi, S Derdak… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
High-density SNP arrays for genome-wide assessment of allelic variation have made high
resolution genetic characterization of crop germplasm feasible. A medium density array for …

Breeding better cultivars, faster: applications of new technologies for the rapid deployment of superior horticultural tree crops

S van Nocker, SE Gardiner - Horticulture Research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Woody perennial plants, including trees that produce fruits and nuts of horticultural value,
typically have long breeding cycles, and development and introduction of improved cultivars …