Four biparental mapping populations were used to refine the peach genome (Peach v1.0):

67 seedlings of the ‘Texas’ x ‘Earligold’ F2 population (TxE [46 (link)]), an interspecific cross between almond and peach, maintained at the experimental station of CREA-FRU in Rome, Italy (latitude: from 41°47'43.72"N to 41°47'46.75"N; longitude: from 12°33'48.78"E to12°33'52.58"E);

242 seedlings of the peach selection IF7310828 x Ferganensis BC1 population (PxF [52 (link)]) maintained at the experimental station of CREA-FRU;

305 seedlings of the ‘Contender’ x ‘Ambra’ F2 population (CxA [51 (link)]) maintained in a farm belonging to the Municipality of Castel San Pietro (Bologna, Emilia Romagna, Italy) leased to ASTRA (latitude: from 44u24944.180 N to: 44u24930.080 N; longitude: from 11u35947.210E, to: 11u3692.000E);

62 seedlings of the Maria Dolce x SD81 F1 cross (MDxSD) maintained at the experimental station of CREA-FRU.

Young leaves were collected from each seedling and lyophilized. DNA was extracted with the DNeasy Plant Mini Kit (QIAGEN), quantified with the NanoDrop spectrophotometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA) and with the PicoGreen® Assay (Thermo Fisher Scientific) for samples genotyped on the IPSC 9 K SNP array. For Sequenom analysis, DNA was extracted from the seedlings of the CxA progeny after Mercado et al. [54 (link)].
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