2019 ASHS Annual Conference
Cross Cultivar RNA-Seq: Challenges and Perspectives
Cross Cultivar RNA-Seq: Challenges and Perspectives
Monday, July 22, 2019: 2:15 PM
Partagas 3 (Tropicana Las Vegas)
The apple fruit marketplace is increasingly cultivar diverse. This diversity presents a number of production challenges, including identification of optimized postharvest practices. An emerging tool for postharvest apple fruit management is functional genomics. This approach can be leveraged to identify gene activity signatures that are associated with future fruit quality, which, with sufficient development can be deployed as biomarkers. However, the genetic diversity that is facilitating increased apple fruit marketplace diversity also presents key challenges for biomarker discovery and development. We discuss these challenges (for apples and more) and offer perspectives and solutions.