GWAS on fruit quality traits using INRAE sweet cherry (P. avium) germplasm collection

This project aimed at conducting a GWAS for fruit quality traits, in a germplasm collection of sweet cherry accessions genotyped using the GBS approach. Specifically, the main objectives of this study are to: (i) examine the existing variability of 23 fruit quality traits within a sample of 116 genotypes of sweet cherry, (ii) identify genome-wide SNP markers associated with these traits by GWAS using three reference genomes and two mixed linear models, (iii) investigate the putative functions, based on searches for orthologs, of the candidate genes associated with these SNPs.