Polyploid organisms carry more than two copies of each chromosome, a condition rarely
tolerated in animals but which occurs relatively frequently in the plant kingdom. One of the …

Almost three decades ago Alec Jeffreys published his seminal Nature papers on the use of
minisatellite probes for DNA fingerprinting of humans (Jeffreys and colleagues Nature 1985 …

The cultivated strawberry, Fragaria× ananassa possesses a genetically complex allo-
octoploid genome. Advances in genomics research in Fragaria, including the release of a …

The DNA fingerprinting of fruit crops, based on DNA microsatellite markers that are
considered to be the key markers for the molecular analysis of germplasm collections, is …

Pedimap is a user-friendly software tool for visualizing phenotypic and genotypic data for
related individuals linked in pedigrees. Genetic data can include marker scores, Identity-by …

Background Breeders in the allo-octoploid strawberry currently make little use of molecular
marker tools. As a first step of a QTL discovery project on fruit quality traits and resistance to …

The cultivated strawberry (Fragaria× ananassa Duch.) is an allo-octoploid considered
difficult to disentangle genetically due to its four relatively similar sub-genomic chromosome …

The Rosoideae is a subfamily of the Rosaceae that contains a number of species of
economic importance, including the soft fruit species strawberry (Fragaria× ananassa), red …

Polyploidy is a very common phenomenon in the plant kingdom, where even diploid species
are often described as paleopolyploids. The polyploid condition may bring about several …

Tetraploid hybrid tea roses (Rosa hybrida) represent most of the commercial cultivars of cut
roses and form the basis for breeding programmes. Due to intensive interspecific …