Identification and Parentage Analysis of Citrus Cultivars Developed in Japan by CAPS Markers

• Published in: Horticulture journal Vol. 86; no. 2; pp. 208 - 221
• Main Authors: Nonaka, Keisuke, Fujii, Hiroshi, Kita, Masayuki, Shimada, Takehiko, Endo, Tomoko, Yoshioka, Terutaka, Omura, Mitsuo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo The Japanese Society for Horticultural Science 01.01.2017; Japan Science and Technology Agency
• Subjects: breeder rights; Breeding; Citrus grandis; Cultivars; genotype; Genotyping; Loci; Markers; Pollen; Polymorphism; Reikou; Setoka; Southern Red; Japan

To protect the rights of breeders of the major citrus cultivars developed under breeding programs by the national institute of Japan, we developed a method of cultivar identification based on cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence (CAPS) markers, and used it to evaluate their identity and parentage....