Pérez de Castro, Ana María; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Cañizares Sales, Joaquín; Pascual Bañuls, Laura; Blanca Postigo, José Miguel; Díez Niclós, Mª José Teresa de Jesús; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Picó Sirvent, María Belén(Bentham Science Publishers, 2012-05)
[EN] Plant breeding has been very successful in developing improved varieties using conventional tools and methodologies. Nowadays, the availability of genomic tools and resources is leading to a new revolution of plant ...
Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Andújar, Isabel; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Hurtado Ricart, María; Gramazio, Pietro; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, 2013-01)
[EN] Chlorogenic acid (5-O-caffeoyl-quinic acid; CGA) is an ester of caffeic acid and (-)-quinic acid with many beneficial properties for human health, such as anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, cardioprotective, anti-carcinogenic, ...
Plazas Ávila, María de la O; López Gresa, Mª Pilar; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Torres Vidal, Cristina; Hurtado Ricart, María; Gramazio, Pietro; Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Belles Albert, José Mª; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(American Chemical Society, 2013-09-18)
Eggplant (Solanum melongena) varieties with increased levels of phenolics in the fruit present enhanced functional quality, but may display greater fruit flesh browning. We evaluated 18 eggplant accessions for fruit total ...
Hurtado Ricart, María; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Gramazio, Pietro; Fonseka, H. Hemal; Fonseka, Ramya; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(Public Library of Science, 2012-07)
Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) was domesticated in the Indo-Birmanian region, which is also the primary center of diversity for this crop. From there eggplant spread to other regions, and diversity accumulated in several ...
Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Hurtado Ricart, María; Gramazio, Pietro; Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(Postgraduate Inst. of Agriculture, 2013)
[EN] Traditional descriptors for characterization of fruit shape of eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) provide limited information and do not allow a detailed characterization of this complex trait. New image analysis software ...
Marchese, F.; Costa, F.; Marra, F. P.; Quartararo, A.; Farina, V.; Reig Valor, Carmina; Agustí Fonfría, Manuel(International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), 2015)
In this study 20 accessions of loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.) that originated from Sicily and other countries were characterized phenotypically and genotyped using seven microsatellite markers. The microsatellites ...
The genotypic potential for high l-ascorbic acid content of 15 accessions of S. lycopersicon and S. pimpinellifolium has been evaluated in three environments, including open-air and glasshouse cultivation and two localities. ...
We have studied a genomic library of introgression lines from the Solanum pimpinellifolium accession TO-937 into the genetic background of the "Moneymaker" cultivar in order to evaluate the accession's breeding potential. ...
Barrantes, Walter; Fernández Del Carmen, María Asunción; Lopez-Casado, Gloria; González-Sánchez, María Ángeles; Fernandez-Munoz, Rafael; Granell Richart, Antonio; Monforte Gilabert, Antonio José(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2014-12)
The Solanum pimpinellifolium L. accession TO-937 is resistant to pests due to the presence of type IV glandular trichomes and also has the potential to increase fruit quality traits in tomato cultivars. This accession was ...
Gonzalo, María José; Nájera, Inmaculada; Baixauli, Carlos; Gil, David; Montoro, Teresa; Soriano, Vicky; Olivieri, Fabrizio; Rigano, Maria Manuela; Ganeva, Daniela; Grozeva-Tileva, Stanislava; Pevicharova, Galina; Barone, Amalia; GRANELL RICHART, ANTONIO; Monforte Gilabert, Antonio José(Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.), 2021-07-22)
[EN] Background Due to global warming, the search for new sources for heat tolerance and the identification of genes involved in this process has become an important challenge as of today. The main objective of the current ...
Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Andújar, Isabel; Torrent Martí, Daniel; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Gramazio, Pietro; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(Springer, 2015-11)
Availability of standardized morphological and molecular characterization data is essential for the efficient development of breeding programmes in emerging crops. Pepino (Solanum muricatum) is an increasingly important ...
[EN] Crop landraces are found in many inhabited islands of Greece. Due to the particularity of environment and isolation from the mainland, Greek islands represent a natural laboratory for comparing the diversity of landraces ...
Pepino mosaic virus (PepMV) disease causes important losses in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) yield around the world. In order to find new sources of resistance to this virus, a collection of accessions from different ...
[EN] Spain is a relevant secondary centre of diversity for Capsicum annuum peppers, especially for the bell types known as Pimiento Morron or Pimiento de Morro. Thus, a myriad of highly regarded landraces adapted to a wide ...
[EN] The structure of Spanish landraces of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L) has been analyzed. This diversity has been evaluated using agro-morphological characteristics (43 descriptors), quality parameters (solid soluble ...
Ambrosio, Marcia MQ; Dantas, Ana CA; Martinez Perez, Eva Maria; Medeiros, Alexis C.; Sousa Nunes, Glauber Henrique de; Picó Sirvent, María Belén(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2015-11)
[EN] We evaluate the seedling resistance to charcoal rot caused by Macrophomina phaseolina in ninety-seven Cucumis melo accessions, from different geographical origins and five F1 generations, derived from crosses of five ...
[EN] Single primer enrichment technology (SPET) is a new, robust, and customizable solution for targeted genotyping. Unlike genotyping by sequencing (GBS), and like DNA chips, SPET is a targeted genotyping technology, ...
Calçots are the immature floral stems of second-year resprouts of the ‘Blanca Tardana de Lleida’ (BTL) onion landrace, and to date, breeding has used only a few populations. So, we aimed to increase our knowledge of the ...
The Capsicum genus is native to tropical America and consists of 27 species, five of which are used as fresh vegetables and spices: Capsicum annuum L., Capsicum chinense Jacq., Capsicum frutescens L., Capsicum baccatum L. ...
The environmental and cultural diversity
of Southwest Europe favored the diversification of
crops arriving from America, giving rise to many new
landraces. Gastronomy played an important role in
their evolution. These ...