Feasibility of developing a novel breeding methodology to improve berry flavour

风味是一个受环境和季节影响的复杂性状，这已经对育种者提出了挑战，并且随着极端天气事件和气候变化将更加困难，传统的育种和选择技术缓慢且受到季节和环境变化的阻碍，QTL定位也随环境变化而变化.最近开发的组学工具（基因组支架，基因表达和代谢数据，相关网络）将使我们能够研究和验证浆果风味及其控制因素（代谢物，基因，环境）之间的联系，以开发有用的模型。这项可行性研究旨在通过利用组学数据以及历史基因型，表型，met和QTL数据与新的风味分析研究来改善树莓风味，以开发新的育种模式。

Flavour is a complex trait under large environmental and seasonal effects which already poses achallenge to breeders and will be more problematic with extreme weather events and climate changes.Conventional breeding and selection techniques are slow and hindered by seasonal and environmentalvariation with QTL mapping also varying with the environment. Recent omics tools have been developed(genome scaffolds, gene expression & metaboloics data, correlation networks) that will allow us toinvestigate and validate links between berry flavour and its controlling factors (metabolites, genes,environment) to develop a useful model. This feasibility study aims to improve raspberry flavour byutilising omics data alongside historic genotype, phenotype, met & QTL data with novel flavour profilingresearch to develop new breeding models.