Media constantly refer of unscrupulous producers that adulterate, alter or replace premium
products in food chains with the goal to maximize illegally profits. Food traceability is a …

Tomato is an important vegetable crop for fresh and processed products. In the past
decades, conventional breeding cum marker-assisted selection (MAS) has been deployed …

During its evolution and domestication Solanum lycopersicum has undergone various
genetic 'bottlenecks' and extreme inbreeding of limited genotypes. In Europe the tomato …

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

Excess salinity is a natural stress that causes crop yield losses worldwide. The genetic
bases of maize salt tolerance remain largely unknown. Here we investigated the survival …

Double digest restriction-site associated sequencing (ddRAD-seq) is a flexible and cost-
effective strategy for providing in-depth insights into the genetic architecture of germplasm …

Background A large single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) dataset was used to analyze
genome-wide diversity in a diverse collection of watermelon cultivars representing globally …

Soybean is one of the most important economic crops for both China and the United States
(US). The exchange of germplasm between these two countries has long been active. In …

Landraces can be defined as locally adapted cultivated forms of domesticated plant species
that have distinctive traits resulting from both environmental adaptation and farmer selection …

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been widely used as a molecular marker in
crop species with advances in next-generation sequencing technology. The use of SNP …