Natural genetic variation for fruit set rate within Malbec grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) clones
Background: Fruit set is the transformation of flower ovaries into berries. Fruit set rate determines the number of berries produced per bunch, which is a major component of yield in grapevines. Malbec is a black-berried grapevine cultivar recognized for producing high-quality wines, and particularl...
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| author | Calderón, Luciano Houten, Silvina van Muñoz, Claudio Oroño, Tomás Bree, Laura Bergamin, Daniel Sola, Cristóbal Segura, Diana Carrillo, Natalia Gomez Talquenca, Gonzalo Martinez Zapater, José Miguel Tello, Javier Lijavetzky, Diego |
| author_browse | Bergamin, Daniel Bree, Laura Calderón, Luciano Carrillo, Natalia Gomez Talquenca, Gonzalo Houten, Silvina van Lijavetzky, Diego Martinez Zapater, José Miguel Muñoz, Claudio Oroño, Tomás Segura, Diana Sola, Cristóbal Tello, Javier |
| author_facet | Calderón, Luciano Houten, Silvina van Muñoz, Claudio Oroño, Tomás Bree, Laura Bergamin, Daniel Sola, Cristóbal Segura, Diana Carrillo, Natalia Gomez Talquenca, Gonzalo Martinez Zapater, José Miguel Tello, Javier Lijavetzky, Diego |
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| description | Background: Fruit set is the transformation of flower ovaries into berries. Fruit set rate determines the number of berries produced per bunch, which is a major component of yield in grapevines. Malbec is a black-berried grapevine cultivar recognized for producing high-quality wines, and particularly relevant for Argentina’s winemaking industry. Clonal variation has been reported for Malbec at the phenotypic and molecular levels. However, less is known about clonal variation for agronomically relevant features affecting yield. In this work we evaluated 25 Malbec clones for the fruit set rate and other related features over multiple seasons.
Results: The mean fruit set rate was 38.6% (ranged between 13.1% and 65.8%) in 2021/22, and 32.1% (ranged between 9.8% and 50%) in 2022/23 season, evidencing a wide range of within-season variation. Besides the expectable interannual differences, significant and positive correlations were found over seasons for the fruit set rate, number of flowers per inflorescence and number of berries per bunch. Moreover, multivariate clustering analyses consistently grouped the evaluated clones into three distinct groups. Two of these groups showed similar number of flowers per inflorescence, but significantly different fruit set rates and number of berries per bunch. Representative clones of the latter two groups were in-depth analyzed in 2023/24, supporting previous seasons results and revealing differences in their floral phenotypes.
Conclusions: We found a wide range of clone-dependent variation for the evaluated traits, which generated great differences in the reproductive performance and yield within Malbec. We hypothesized that the observed differences were associated to somatic mutations, affecting the correct development and functionality of flower organs in a clone-specific way. |
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| spelling | INTA238052025-09-15T11:47:14Z Natural genetic variation for fruit set rate within Malbec grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) clones Calderón, Luciano Houten, Silvina van Muñoz, Claudio Oroño, Tomás Bree, Laura Bergamin, Daniel Sola, Cristóbal Segura, Diana Carrillo, Natalia Gomez Talquenca, Gonzalo Martinez Zapater, José Miguel Tello, Javier Lijavetzky, Diego Vid Variedades Variación Genética Mutación Somática Grapevines Varieties Vitis vinifera Clones Genetic Variation Somatic Mutation Malbec Background: Fruit set is the transformation of flower ovaries into berries. Fruit set rate determines the number of berries produced per bunch, which is a major component of yield in grapevines. Malbec is a black-berried grapevine cultivar recognized for producing high-quality wines, and particularly relevant for Argentina’s winemaking industry. Clonal variation has been reported for Malbec at the phenotypic and molecular levels. However, less is known about clonal variation for agronomically relevant features affecting yield. In this work we evaluated 25 Malbec clones for the fruit set rate and other related features over multiple seasons. Results: The mean fruit set rate was 38.6% (ranged between 13.1% and 65.8%) in 2021/22, and 32.1% (ranged between 9.8% and 50%) in 2022/23 season, evidencing a wide range of within-season variation. Besides the expectable interannual differences, significant and positive correlations were found over seasons for the fruit set rate, number of flowers per inflorescence and number of berries per bunch. Moreover, multivariate clustering analyses consistently grouped the evaluated clones into three distinct groups. Two of these groups showed similar number of flowers per inflorescence, but significantly different fruit set rates and number of berries per bunch. Representative clones of the latter two groups were in-depth analyzed in 2023/24, supporting previous seasons results and revealing differences in their floral phenotypes. Conclusions: We found a wide range of clone-dependent variation for the evaluated traits, which generated great differences in the reproductive performance and yield within Malbec. We hypothesized that the observed differences were associated to somatic mutations, affecting the correct development and functionality of flower organs in a clone-specific way. EEA Mendoza Fil: Calderón, Luciano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Biología Agrícola de Mendoza; Argentina Fil: Calderón, Luciano. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Instituto de Biología Agrícola de Mendoza; Argentina Fil: Houten, Silvina van. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Biología Agrícola de Mendoza; Argentina Fil: Houten, Silvina van. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Instituto de Biología Agrícola de Mendoza; Argentina Fil: Muñoz, Claudio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Biología Agrícola de Mendoza; Argentina Fil: Muñoz, Claudio. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Instituto de Biología Agrícola de Mendoza; Argentina Fil: Muñoz, Claudio. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; Argentina Fil: Oroño, Tomás. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Biología Agrícola de Mendoza; Argentina Fil: Oroño, Tomás. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Instituto de Biología Agrícola de Mendoza; Argentina Fil: Bree, Laura. Vivero Mercier; Argentina Fil: Bergamin, Daniel. Vivero Mercier; Argentina Fil: Sola, Cristóbal. Vivero Mercier; Argentina Fil: Segura, Diana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Biología Agrícola de Mendoza; Argentina Fil: Segura, Diana. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Instituto de Biología Agrícola de Mendoza; Argentina Fil: Carrillo, Natalia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Biología Agrícola de Mendoza; Argentina Fil: Carrillo, Natalia. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Instituto de Biología Agrícola de Mendoza; Argentina Fil: Carrillo, Natalia. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; Argentina Fil: Gomez Talquenca, Gonzalo. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Mendoza; Argentina Fil: Martínez Zapater, José Miguel. Instituto de Ciencias de la Vid y del Vino (CSIC, UR, Gobierno de La Rioja); España Fil: Tello, Javier. Instituto de Ciencias de la Vid y del Vino (CSIC, UR, Gobierno de La Rioja); España Fil: Lijavetzky, Diego. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Biología Agrícola de Mendoza; Argentina Fil: Lijavetzky, Diego. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Instituto de Biología Agrícola de Mendoza; Argentina 2025-09-15T11:44:54Z 2025-09-15T11:44:54Z 2025-05 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/23805 https://bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12870-025-06660-1 1471-2229 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-025-06660-1 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf BMC BMC Plant Biology 25 : Article number: 606. (2025) |
| spellingShingle | Vid Variedades Variación Genética Mutación Somática Grapevines Varieties Vitis vinifera Clones Genetic Variation Somatic Mutation Malbec Calderón, Luciano Houten, Silvina van Muñoz, Claudio Oroño, Tomás Bree, Laura Bergamin, Daniel Sola, Cristóbal Segura, Diana Carrillo, Natalia Gomez Talquenca, Gonzalo Martinez Zapater, José Miguel Tello, Javier Lijavetzky, Diego Natural genetic variation for fruit set rate within Malbec grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) clones |
| title | Natural genetic variation for fruit set rate within Malbec grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) clones |
| title_full | Natural genetic variation for fruit set rate within Malbec grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) clones |
| title_fullStr | Natural genetic variation for fruit set rate within Malbec grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) clones |
| title_full_unstemmed | Natural genetic variation for fruit set rate within Malbec grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) clones |
| title_short | Natural genetic variation for fruit set rate within Malbec grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) clones |
| title_sort | natural genetic variation for fruit set rate within malbec grapevine vitis vinifera l clones |
| topic | Vid Variedades Variación Genética Mutación Somática Grapevines Varieties Vitis vinifera Clones Genetic Variation Somatic Mutation Malbec |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/23805 https://bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12870-025-06660-1 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-025-06660-1 |
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