Tasting improvement in fruit flavor using genomics

Fruit and Vegetable Flavor

Introduction: The quality of fresh produce has traditionally been based on external characteristics of size, color, and absence of surface defects. Fruit and vegetable breeders selected for color, size, disease resistance, yield and other easily quantified horticultural traits. Because flavor and texture characteristics were not a part of the selection process, improvements in these quality att...

Using genomics to improve fruit quality.

New fruit varieties are needed to satisfy consumers, and the industry is facing new challenges in order to respond to these demands. The emergence of genomic tools is releasing information on polymorphisms that can be utilized to expedite breeding processes in species that are difficult to breed, given the long periods of time required to get new varieties. The present review describes the curr...

Brassica Seed Improvement Using Genomics Tools

Genomics is revolutionising the speed with which biological information can be accumulated thanks to the use of high throughput molecular and bioinformatics technologies. The complete DNA sequencing of the Arabidopsis genome is helping plant biologists to unravel the remarkable “machinery” of how plants grow and develop. This article describes a genomic research project focusing on the study of...

Advances in Arachis genomics for peanut improvement.

Peanut genomics is very challenging due to its inherent problem of genetic architecture. Blockage of gene flow from diploid wild relatives to the tetraploid; cultivated peanut, recent polyploidization combined with self pollination, and the narrow genetic base of the primary genepool have resulted in low genetic diversity that has remained a major bottleneck for genetic improvement of peanut. H...

Genomics of Tropical Fruit Tree Crops