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Skin Color in Apple Fruit (Malus × domestica): Genetic and Epigenetic Insights

Apple skin color is an important trait for organoleptic quality. In fact, it has a major influence on consumer choice. Skin color is, thus, one of the most important criteria taken into account by breeders. For apples, most novel varieties are so-called “mutants” or “sports” that have been identifie...

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Autores principales: Wang, Wuqian, Celton, Jean-Marc, Buck-Sorlin, Gerhard, Balzergue, Sandrine, Bucher, Etienne, Laurens, François
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8594686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34968286
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/epigenomes4030013
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author Wang, Wuqian
Celton, Jean-Marc
Buck-Sorlin, Gerhard
Balzergue, Sandrine
Bucher, Etienne
Laurens, François
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description Apple skin color is an important trait for organoleptic quality. In fact, it has a major influence on consumer choice. Skin color is, thus, one of the most important criteria taken into account by breeders. For apples, most novel varieties are so-called “mutants” or “sports” that have been identified in clonal populations. Indeed, many “sports” exist that show distinct phenotypic differences compared to the varieties from which they originated. These differences affect a limited number of traits of economic importance, including skin color. Until recently, the detailed genetic or epigenetic changes resulting in heritable phenotypic changes in sports was largely unknown. Recent technological advances and the availability of several high-quality apple genomes now provide the bases to understand the exact nature of the underlying molecular changes that are responsible for the observed phenotypic changes observed in sports. The present review investigates the molecular nature of sports affected in apple skin color giving arguments in favor of the genetic or epigenetic explanatory models.
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spelling pubmed-85946862021-12-28 Skin Color in Apple Fruit (Malus × domestica): Genetic and Epigenetic Insights Wang, Wuqian Celton, Jean-Marc Buck-Sorlin, Gerhard Balzergue, Sandrine Bucher, Etienne Laurens, François Epigenomes Review Apple skin color is an important trait for organoleptic quality. In fact, it has a major influence on consumer choice. Skin color is, thus, one of the most important criteria taken into account by breeders. For apples, most novel varieties are so-called “mutants” or “sports” that have been identified in clonal populations. Indeed, many “sports” exist that show distinct phenotypic differences compared to the varieties from which they originated. These differences affect a limited number of traits of economic importance, including skin color. Until recently, the detailed genetic or epigenetic changes resulting in heritable phenotypic changes in sports was largely unknown. Recent technological advances and the availability of several high-quality apple genomes now provide the bases to understand the exact nature of the underlying molecular changes that are responsible for the observed phenotypic changes observed in sports. The present review investigates the molecular nature of sports affected in apple skin color giving arguments in favor of the genetic or epigenetic explanatory models. MDPI 2020-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8594686/ /pubmed/34968286 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/epigenomes4030013 Text en © 2020 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ).
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Laurens, François
Skin Color in Apple Fruit (Malus × domestica): Genetic and Epigenetic Insights
title Skin Color in Apple Fruit (Malus × domestica): Genetic and Epigenetic Insights
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title_short Skin Color in Apple Fruit (Malus × domestica): Genetic and Epigenetic Insights
title_sort skin color in apple fruit (malus × domestica): genetic and epigenetic insights
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8594686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34968286
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/epigenomes4030013
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