Does Marker-assisted Selection Make Dollars and Sense in a Fruit Breeding Program?

Abstract

period, an extended juvenile phase for seedlings, and a marketable product that cannot be assessed until a seedling is physiologically mature. Their perishable product consists largely of water and, thus, is subject to numerous interactions of genetic effects with consumer preferences, as well as with biotic and abiotic factors during preharvest and postharvest periods.