Whole genome sequencing of cultivated and wild varieties of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.)
The Eurasian grapevine is one of the most widely cultivated and economically important fruit crop in the world. The development of commercially successful grapevine varieties is hampered by a lack of information about the structure of its genomes. In particular, this information is important for breeding of pathogen-resistance varieties that would be able to develop bunches under different climate conditions. The breeding of grapevine becomes more effective with an understanding of domestication processes which is impossible without knowledge of grapevine genome structure. This information provides an opportunity of applying methods of genomic and marker-assisted selection aimed at finding new important alleles. Besides, it becomes possible to study evolution processes of grapevine such us the changing of a flower type during domestication. This paper contains information about the current state of whole genome sequencing of cultivated grape and its wild progenitors.