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QTLs for fertility in table grape (Vitis vinifera L.)

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Fertility (number of inflorescences per shoot) is a trait of major importance for grapevine breeding. We present and compare the results of quantitative trait locus (QTL) detection for fertility in two table grape progenies, MTP3140 and MTP3234. Novel parental and consensus maps were built for MTP3140. We found a main QTL on linkage group (LG) 5 in both progenies, which was also the most stable one across years. It explained up to 18.5% of the total intra-cross phenotypic variance. Three other QTLs, one on LG 5 and two on LG 14, were repeated over years but were found in a single progeny. Our results suggest that QTLs effect was mainly additive. The prospects for testing candidate genes are discussed as well as the potential interest of these results for marker-assisted selection.

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Acknowledgments

This study was funded by INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) and an EU grant (INCO project MASTER, contract ICA4-2001-10065). We thank the CTIFL (Centre Technique Interprofessionnel des Fruits et Légumes) experimental station of Balandran for growing the MTP3346 progeny in their greenhouse, the INRA experimental station of Vassal for the realization and sowing of the three crosses and the initial growing of ungrafted MTP3140 and MTP3234 progenies in the field, the INRA experimental station of Chapitre for the subsequent growing of grafted MTP3140 and MTP3234 progenies in the field, P. Domergue for participating in field data collection for MTP3140 progeny, V. Segura for useful advice on QTL detection methodology, and J.P. Péros and two anonymous reviewers for useful comments on previous versions of this manuscript.

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    Agnès Doligez, Yves Bertrand, Sonia Dias, Michel Grolier, Jean-François Ballester, Alain Bouquet & Patrice This

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Doligez, A., Bertrand, Y., Dias, S. et al. QTLs for fertility in table grape (Vitis vinifera L.). Tree Genetics & Genomes 6, 413–422 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11295-009-0259-0

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