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SPAD: potential phenotyping method for characterization of blueberry

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Background

Blueberry is an attractive fruit due to its blue or purple-colored pigments with effective anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties. Accordingly, the demand for blueberry cultivation is rapidly increasing. However, various cultivars from different regions are cultivated without characterizing it.

Methods and results

We present a method to characterize crops using the SAPD meter. For characterizing each cultivar, the photosynthetic potential of each cultivar, which was measured by SAPD meter three times a day at three heights of a crop, was compared under the same conditions.

Conclusion

A difference in photosynthetic potential even in the same SHB-type cultivars was found. Therefore, applying cultivation methods suitable to the characteristics of each cultivar is necessary. At the same time, it would be meaningful for researchers and breeders to use this method for genome-wide association study in order to develop molecular markers for increasing photosynthesis efficiency.

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Acknowledgements

We thanks the Sustainable Agriculture Research Institute (SARI) of Jeju National University for providing the experimental facilities.

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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), funded by the Ministry of Education (2019R1A6A1A11052070).

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    1. Department of Plant Resources and Environment, Jeju National University, 63243, Jeju, Korea

      Gyung Deok Han, Jeong Min Chio & Yong Suk Chung

    2. Department of Horticulture, Kongju National University, 32439, Yesan, Korea

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    All listed authors have made enough contributions to this study. Conceptualization, YSC.; methodology, SH, and YSC; software, SH; validation, YSC; formal analysis, SH; investigation, SH, and GDH.; resources JMC.; data curation, GDH, and JMC.; writing—original draft preparation, SH, and GDH; writing—review and editing, YSC; visualization, SH and GDH; supervision, YSC; project administration, YSC; funding acquisition, YSC. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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    Han, G.D., Heo, S., Chio, J.M. et al. SPAD: potential phenotyping method for characterization of blueberry. Mol Biol Rep 49, 5505–5510 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-022-07430-0

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