Article
GBS-Based Deconvolution of the Surviving North American Collection of Cold-Hardy Kiwifruit (Actinidia spp.) Germplasm.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Melo Arthur T O, Guthrie Robert S, Hale Iago
Abstract excerpt
Plant germplasm collections can be invaluable resources to plant breeders, provided they are well-characterized. After 140 years of acquisition and curation efforts by a wide and largely non-coordinated array of private and institutional actors, the current US collection of cold-hardy kiwifruit (Actinidia spp.) is rife with misclassifications, misnomers, and mix-ups. To facilitate the systematic improvement and...
Topics
- Acclimatization
- Actinidia
- Cold Climate
- DNA, Plant
- Fruit
- Genotype
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Seed Bank
- Selection, Genetic
- United States