Key message This article evaluates the main contributions of tomato, tobacco, petunia,
potato, pepper and eggplant to classical and molecular plant genetics and genomics since …

Chile pepper (Capsicum spp.) is a major culinary, medicinal, and economic crop in most
areas of the world. For more than hundreds of years, chile peppers have “defined” the state …

Capsaicinoids are unique compounds produced only in peppers (Capsicum spp.). Several
studies using classical quantitative trait loci (QTL s) mapping and genomewide association …

Investigating crop diversity through genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) on core
collections helps in deciphering the genetic determinants of complex quantitative traits …

Background Knowledge on population structure and genetic diversity in vegetable crops is
essential for association mapping studies and genomic selection. Genotyping by …

As one of the most popular non-alcoholic beverage crops, the tea plant (Camellia sinensis)
plays an important role in human health and lifestyle. Genetic fingerprinting based on …

The successful exploitation of germplasm banks, harbouring plant genetic resources
indispensable for plant breeding, will depend on our ability to characterize their genetic …

Accumulated capsaicinoid content and increased fruit size are traits resulting from Capsicum
annuum domestication. In this study, we used a diverse collection of C. annuum to generate …

Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) is one of the most valuable vegetables in the world. Over the
last decades, highly performing cultivars have progressively replaced the diversified and …

This genetic diversity study aimed to estimate the population structure and explore the use of
association mapping strategies to identify linked markers for bacterial resistance, growth and …