Making a chocolate chip: Development and evaluation of a 6K SNP array for Theobroma cacao

DNA Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 279-291

  Livingstone, Donald ^a   Royaert, Stefan ^a   Stack, Conrad ^a   Mockaitis, Keithanne ^b   May, Greg ^c   Farmer, Andrew ^c   Saski, Christopher ^d   Schnell, Ray ^a   Kuhn, David ^e   Motamayor, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a MARS INC   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GENOME RESOURCES   (United States)

^d CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

breeding; cacao; mapping; markers; SNP

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CACAO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVAR; CULTIVAR IDENTIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RESOURCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GENOMICS; PLANT GENOME; PROCEDURES;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

ALLELES; CACAO; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84939548832     PISSN: 13402838     EISSN: 17561663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsv009     Document Type: Article

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