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‘Schmidt's Antonovka’ is identical to ‘Common Antonovka’, an apple cultivar widely used in Russia in breeding for biotic and abiotic stresses

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Progenies of ‘Schmidt's Antonovka’ (SA) have been widely used in Western breeding programs as a source of scab resistance. The identity of SA has remained obscure, especially due to the existence of a series of ‘Antonovka’ cultivars with different origins. In this paper we show Schmidt's Antonovka to be identical to Анто́новка обыкновенный or ‘Common Antonovka’ (CA), an old Russian cultivar of unknown origin, by comparing simple sequence repeat (SSR) and SNP genotyping data from several first-generation descendants of SA from two European collections and a CA accession from the germplasm collection held at VNIISPK (The All-Russian Research Institute of Horticultural Breeding, Orel, Russia). The use of CA in Russian breeding programs is also briefly reviewed.

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The FruitBreedomics project no. 265582 ‘Integrated approach for increasing breeding efficiency in fruit tree crops’ (http://www.fruitbreedomics.com), funded under the EU Seventh Framework Program, is acknowledged for making the SNP data on Schmidt's four B VIII selections and Elise available. The USDA-NIFA-SCRI project ‘RosBREED: Enabling marker-assisted breeding in Rosaceae’, grant number 2009-51181-05808 (http://www.rosbreed.org), is acknowledged by the senior author for the experience in SNP calling. The views expressed in this work are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessary reflect the views of the European Commission or the USDA.

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Anna Pikunova and Madhuri Madduri contributed equally to this work.

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Pikunova, A., Madduri, M., Sedov, E. et al. ‘Schmidt's Antonovka’ is identical to ‘Common Antonovka’, an apple cultivar widely used in Russia in breeding for biotic and abiotic stresses. Tree Genetics & Genomes 10, 261–271 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11295-013-0679-8

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