Table grapes are a valuable fruit crop worldwide. Warm climates are emerging as important global production suppliers. Traditional grapevine cultivars are poorly adapted to higher temperatures and other abiotic factors of warm zones, conditions increasingly common in temperate areas due to climate change. Understanding the genetic architecture of production traits in breeding families developed for warm climates is crucial to...

Vanilla planifolia suffers major losses from root and stem rot (RSR) caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. radicis-vanillae (Forv), amplified by low genetic diversity. We dissected quantitative resistance by phenotyping a selfed population AF_CR0040 (n = 115) inoculated with three Forv isolates (Fo166, Fo254, Fo297). Five traits were scored: symptoms at 5, 10 and 15 days post-inoculation (dpi), the area under the disease progres...