Table 7.
Phenotypic and molecular representativeness of the four cerasiforme core collections.
| SSR allele | Number of classes for phenotypic quantitative traita | |||||||||
| Size of core collection | number | % | Active variables | Target variablesb | Total | |||||
| Fruit weight | Fruit locule number | Firmness | Color (a*)c | SSCc | titratable acidityc | |||||
| 8 | 52 | 40 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 18 | |
| 24 | 105 | 76.9 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 23 | |
| 32 | 119 | 91.5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 26 | |
| 64 | 128 | 98.5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 27 | |
| total | 130 | 100 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 30 | |
a Each quantitative variable was split into 5 classes of equal dimension (see Materials and Methods) when looking for the whole cerasiforme sample and number of classes. b Soluble Solid Content (SSC) and titratable acidity were only used to analyse core collections representativeness and were not used as active variables for the sampling of these core collections. c a* describes how red/green a color is.