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Innovations in Genetics and Breeding of Capsicum and Eggplant Innovations in Genetics and Breeding of Capsicum and Eggplant Proceedings of the 17th EUCARPIA Meeting on Genetics and Breeding of Capsicum and Eggplant, September 11-13, 2019 | Avignon - France Editors: Véronique Lefebvre & Marie-Christine Daunay 1 Editors Véronique Lefebvre & Marie-Christine Daunay Title Innovations in Genetics and Breeding of Capsicum and Eggplant Sub-title Proceedings of the 17th EUCARPIA Meeting on Genetics and Breeding of Capsicum and Eggplant September 11-13, 2019 | Avignon - France Publisher Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) Centre de recherche Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur 228 route de l’aérodrome CS 40 509 - Domaine Saint Paul, Site Agroparc, 84914 Avignon Cedex 9 - France Visual identity Artistic director Layout design and editing © Armelle Favery © Lyonel Liger assisted by Sabine Laugier Salima Kherchache Printed by SUD LABO, 35 avenue Pierre Sémard, 84000 Avignon - France 2 Innovations in Genetics and Breeding of Capsicum and Eggplant Proceedings of the 17th EUCARPIA Meeting on Genetics and Breeding of Capsicum and Eggplant, September 11-13, 2019 | Avignon - France International Scientific Committee Local Organizing Committee Paul Bosland (USA) Bernard Caromel - INRA Bernard Caromel (France) Marie-Christine Daunay - INRA Marie-Christine Daunay (France) Carole Dirwimmer - GEVES Anne Frary (Turkey) Judith Hirsch - INRA Judith Hirsch (France) Salima Kherchache - INRA Byoung Cheorl Kang (South Korea) Véronique Lefebvre - INRA Sergio Lanteri (Italy) Sébastien Le Pioufle - INRA Véronique Lefebvre (France) Benoît Moury - INRA Benoît Moury (France) Annabelle Payen - TERRALIA Ilan Paran (Israel) Jérémy Salinier - INRA Jaime Prohens (Spain) Rebecca Stevens - INRA Jérémy Salinier (France) Emmanuel Szadkowski - INRA Rebecca Stevens (France) Marie Torres - CTIFL Emmanuel Szadkowski (France) Roeland Voorrips (The Netherlands) 13 Partners and Sponsors Partners and Sponsors of the 17th EUCARPIA Meeting on Genetics and Breeding of Capsicum and Eggplant INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique : UR Génétique et Amélioration des Fruits et Légumes (GAFL) UR Pathologie Végétale GEVES Groupe d’Etude et de contrôle des Variétés Et des Semences CTIFL Centre Technique Interprofessionnel des Fruits et Légumes TERRALIA Pôle de Compétitivité EUCARPIA European Association for Research on Plant Breeding Agropolis Fondation Laboratoire d’Excellence - Investissements d’Avenir SFR TERSYS Structure Fédérative de Recherche CBGG Crop Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, Open Access Journal by Hapres Plants Open Access Journal by MDPI 4 Capsicum and Eggplant EUCARPIA Meeting 2019 | Partners and Sponsors Innovations in Genetics and Breeding of Capsicum and Eggplant Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation Program ACCESS, CAMPUS France Région SUD Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Conseil Départemental du Vaucluse Ville d’Avignon Limagrain I Limagrain Vegetable Seeds SAKATA Rijk Zwaan Nova Genetic Gautier Semences East-West Seed Syndicat du Piment d’Espelette AOP Partners and Sponsors | Capsicum and Eggplant EUCARPIA Meeting 2019 15 Foreword This book “Innovations on Genetics and Breeding of Capsicum and Eggplant” gathers oral and poster contributions presented at the eponymous 17th Eucarpia Meeting, held at the prestigious Popes’ Palace in Avignon, between the 11th and 13th September 2019. Since its first edition in 1971, this triennial international meeting, held under the auspices of the Eucarpia association, is a fruitful forum for exchanges about the latest advances on Capsicum and eggplant genetics and breeding between c. 200 research and development experts from academic as well as private sectors. This 17th meeting is organized by INRA, as were its 3rd (1977) and 10th (1998) editions. The five scientific sessions, Genetic Resources and Domestication, Resistance to Biotic & Abiotic Stresses, Nutritional Value & Fruit Quality, Biotechnology & Genomics, and Pre-breeding & Breeding, illustrate the commitment of Capsicum and eggplant scientists to sustainable breeding and crop production. The scientific committee, together with the local organization committee, have introduced some new features into the 2019 meeting: - keynote speakers introduce each session with a talk providing an overview of each field of research; - the book includes abstracts of a standardized structure, instead of full papers, in order to provide complete and easy to handle information, and not to prevent subsequent publications in peer-reviewed journals; - authors of oral communications have been invited to write full original articles in the peer-reviewed and open-access journal ‘Crop Breeding, Genetics and Genomics’ (CBGG), which will publish a special issue on ‘Genetics and Breeding of Pepper and Eggplant’, - to promote participation of students in order to rejuvenate the Capsicum and Eggplant academic network, students have been offered reduced registration fees and awards will be attributed to the best oral and poster presentations of PhD students, thanks to public and private sponsorship; - free registration has been offered to a few PhD students and senior scientists from low-income countries, thanks to French institutional sponsorship. 6 Capsicum and Eggplant EUCARPIA Meeting 2019 | Foreword Innovations in Genetics and Breeding of Capsicum and Eggplant We thank all oral and poster authors for their contributions and the special efforts made to comply with the specified abstract format together with the revisions suggested by the scientific committee aiming at ensuring uniform scientific quality. Members of the international scientific committee are warmly thanked for their noteworthy involvement in the scientific organization of the meeting. We are grateful to the local organization committee that has accomplished a tremendous and versatile 2 years’ work. Our acknowledgements are also addressed to INRA, GEVES, CTIFL, Terralia, to several other national or regional French institutions, as well as to the vegetable seed companies, all of whose support and sponsorship was indispensable for the organization of the meeting. We hope all attendees will enjoy the 17th Eucarpia Meeting on Genetics and Breeding of Capsicum and Eggplant in Provence as much as the previous editions, and that this book will serve over the long term in testifying to its high scientific interest. Successive generations of researchers and breeders over almost 50 years have all paved the way to increased genetic knowledge and varietal improvement of Capsicum and eggplant. We spare a special thought for Alain Palloix, an active member of our scientific community until 2016, on the occasion of this 17th Eucarpia meeting held in Avignon, and look forward to the next meeting in three years. Avignon, France, 18th July 2019 Véronique Lefebvre & Marie-Christine Daunay Conveners of the 17th Eucarpia Meeting in Genetics and Breeding of Capsicum and Eggplant Foreword | Capsicum and Eggplant EUCARPIA Meeting 2019 17 Table of Contents In this book, abstracts are ordered by session. Within each session, abstracts appear in the same order as the oral presentations, as planned in the congress schedule. Following the oral presentations, the poster abstracts are ordered alphabetically by first author name. Furthermore we have coded the abstracts according to the following system: - The first two letters indicate the session: “GR” for Genetic Resources and Domestication, “RS” for Resistance to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses, “NQ” for Nutritional Value and Quality Traits, “BG” for Biotechnology and Genomics, “PB” for Pre-breeding and Breeding. - The following letter indicates the type of communication: “K” for Keynote, “O” for Oral, “P” for Poster. - The code ends with a number matching the order of the abstract within the session. - Example given: GR-K/01 for the keynote as the first communication of the session Genetic Resources and Domestication. 8 Capsicum and Eggplant EUCARPIA Meeting 2019 | Table of Contents Innovations in Genetics and Breeding of Capsicum and Eggplant 21 SESSION 1 GENETIC RESOURCES AND DOMESTICATION 23 Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) and its relatives: Overview of 50 years of research and breeding | GR-K/01 Daunay MC, Aubriot X, Hennart JW, Haanstra J, Moquet F, Majde M 26 Comparative demographic study: Reconstructing the evolutionary history of Solanaceae species to better understand the domestication process and outcome | GR-O/02 Arnoux S, Fraïsse C, Duboscq R, Causse M, Sauvage C 28 High-throughput phenotyping to characterize Capsicum fruit shape diversity GR-O/03 Nankar AN, Tringovska I, Grozeva S, Todorova V, Kostova D 30 Inter and intra-specific variations of the root system architecture among aubergines, capsicums and tomatoes | GR-O/04 Bui HH, Daunay MC, Stevens R, Salinier J, Pagès L 32 Genetic diversity between accessions of peppers (Capsicum chinense Jaqc.) from the Brazilian Amazon region | GR-O/05 Silva DJH, Bhering LL, Rosado RDS, Santana SR 34 Eggplants and relatives: phylogenic vs crossability relationships | GR-O/06 Daunay MC, Salinier J, Aubriot X 36 Uncovering the diversity of eggplant wild relatives: advances in taxonomy and phylogenetics of Old World spiny solanums | GR-P/07 Aubriot X, Daunay MC, Knapp S 38 Genetic diversity and population structure analysis to construct a core collection from a large eggplant germplasm | GR-P/08 Miyatake K, Shinmura Y, Matsunaga H, Fukuoka H, Saito T 40 Capsicum seed viability monitoring for germplasm management | GR-P/09 Mongkolporn O, Rodpai B, Luengwilai K 42 Screening of
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