Evidence of the Role of QTL Epistatic Interactions in the Increase of Melon Fruit Flesh Content during Domestication

Cultivated melon was domesticated from wild melons, which produce small fruits with non-edible fruit flesh. The increase in fruit flesh is one of the major domestication achievements in this species. In previous work, a quantitative trait locus (QTL) on chromosome 6 (<i>paqt6.1</i>) link...

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Main Authors: Chaymaa Riahi, Juan Luis Reig-Valiente, Belén Picó, Aurora Díaz, Maria José Gonzalo, Antonio José Monforte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-07-01
Series:Agronomy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/10/8/1064