Instrumental Texture Profile of Traditional Varieties of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) and its Relationship to Consumer Textural Preferences.

Among components of the consumer's perception of tomato fruit quality, texture is one of the most critical, being formed of a number of attributes that are difficult to evaluate and which change during fruit ripening and storage. The present work relates different textural parameters measured in a collection of traditional tomatoes from Madrid with the appreciation collected from consumer opinions. Texture traits were highly variable in studied tomatoes; they had strong environmental influence and they differed among genotypes.

SNP genotyping in melons: genetic variation, population structure, and linkage disequilibrium.

Novel sequencing technologies were recently used to generate sequences from multiple melon (Cucumis melo L.) genotypes, enabling the in silico identification of large single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) collections. In order to optimize the use of these markers, SNP validation and large-scale genotyping are necessary.