QTL detection for fruit shelf life and quality traits across segregating populations of tomato》.pdf

Scientia Horticulturae 156 (2013) 47–53 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Scientia Horticulturae j o u rn al h o m e p ag e: w w w. elsev /locate/scih orti QTL detection for fruit shelf life and quality traits across segregating populations of tomato Javier Hernán Pereira da Costa a,b,∗ , Gustavo Rubén Rodríguez a,b , Guillermo Raúl Pratta a,b , Liliana Amelia Picardi b,c , Roxana Zorzoli b,c a Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina b Cátedra de Genética, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, CC14, Zavalla (S2125ZAA), Santa Fe, Argentina c Consejo de Investigaciones de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The aim of this work was to detect QTLs associated with fruit shelf life and quality traits across different Received 19 November 2012 segregating populations derived from an interspecific cross. The first backcross generation (BC1 ) of an Received in revised form 11 March 2013 interspecific tomato cross was analyzed to detect genomic regions from Solanum pimpinellifolium acces- Accepted 12 March 2013 sion LA722 that could improve fruit quality and prolonging fruit shelf life in an Argentinean cultivar. Families derived from five BC1 self-plant and BC2 were used to validate the detected QTL in the BC1 as Keywords: well as to identify regions with wild type recessive alleles of QTLs controlling these traits