“Research in Plain English” articles provide brief, non-technical summaries of journal articles relating to VitisGen2 accomplishments.
Title: Discovery of the REN11 Locus From Vitis aestivalis for Stable Resistance to Grapevine Powdery Mildew in a Family Segregating for Several Unstable and Tissue-Specific Quantitative Resistance Loci.
Authors: Avinash Karn, Cheng Zou, Siraprapa Brooks, Jonathan Fresnedo-Ramirez, Franka Gabler, Qi Sun, David Ramming, Rachel Naegele, Craig Ledbetter and Lance Cadle-Davidson
Front. Plant Sci. 12:733-899.doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.733899
Title: Fine mapping of leaf trichome density revealed a 747-kb region on chromosome 1 in cold-hardy hybrid wine grape populations
Authors: Lu Yin, Avinash Karn, Lance Cadle-Davidson, Cheng Zou, Anna Underhill, Paul Atkins, Erin Treiber, Daniel Voytas, Matthew Clark
Frontiers in Plant Science 12 (2021):150 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.587640
Quantifying color in hybrid grapes
Title: Evaluating and mapping grape color using image-based phenotyping
Authors: Anna Underhill, Cory Hirsch, Matthew Clark
Plant Phenomics, 2020, Article ID 8086309. DOI: 10.34133/2020/8086309
What is the economic value of breeding grapes that are resistant to powdery mildew?
Title: The pecuniary and non-pecuniary costs of powdery mildew and the potential value of resistant varieties in California grapes
Authors: Olena Sambucci, Julian M. Alston, Kate B. Fuller, and Jayson Lusk
American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, 70 (2), pages 177-187. DOI: 10.5344/ajev.2018.18032.
New resistance genes mapped for an important foliar insect pest of some hybrid grape cultivars
Title: Quantitative trait loci identified for foliar phylloxera resistance in a hybrid grape population
Authors: Matthew D. Clark, Soon L. Teh, Eric Burkness, Laise Moreira, Grace Watson, Lu Yin, William D. Hutchison and James J. Luby
Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research, 24 (3), pages 292-300. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajgw.12341.
Title: Construction of a high-density linkage map and QTL detection of downy mildew resistance in Vitis aestivalis-derived ‘Norton’
Authors: Surya Sapkota, Li-Ling Chen, Shanshan Yang, Katie E. Hyma, Lance Cadle-Davidson and Chin-Feng Hwang
Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 132, pages 137-147. DOI: 10.1007/s00122-018-3203-6.
Looking for durable downy mildew resistance in grapes.
Title: Single and multiple phenotype QTL analyses of downy mildew resistance in interspecific grapevines
Authors: Konstantin Divilov, Paola Barba, Lance Cadle-Davidson and Bruce Reisch
Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 131 (5), pages 1133-1143. DOI: 10.1007/s00122-018-3065-y. May 2018.