A clarified position for solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformein the evolutionary history of tomatoes (solanaceae)

Table 7 Phenotypic and molecular representativeness of the four cerasiforme core collections.

	SSR allele		Number of classes for phenotypic quantitative trait^a
Size of core collection	number	%	Active variables				Target variables^b		Total
			Fruit weight	Fruit locule number	Firmness	Color (a*)^c	SSC^c	titratable acidity^c
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.

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