ABSTRACT
Advances in marker-assisted breeding of tomatoes Junming Li, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers – Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China
1 Introduction
2 Marker development
3 Populations for mapping
4 Strategies for trait association and GWAS
5 Mapping targeted traits in tomato
6 Selection methods
7 MAS progress in tomato breeding
8 Current developments in tomato breeding
9 Conclusions and future trends
10 Where to look for further information
11 References
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is the second most important vegetable crop in the world not only for fresh consumption but also for the processing industry. This can be attributed to its nutritional value. Tomato belongs to the Solanaceae family, which include other important crop species such as potato (S. tuberosum), eggplant (S. melongena), tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) and pepper (Capsicum annuum). Tomato is also regarded as a model plant of the Solanaceae family (Knapp, 2002), a fleshy fruit (Giovannoni, 2004) and host resistant to diverse diseases, which has been used for many kinds of research programmes.
