Table S1. Putative ORFs predicted inside the Co region. In bold the transcripts belonging to possible candidate genes.

Sequence name / Genome Browser / ORF (bp) / AUGUSTUS / ORF (bp) / GENSCAN / ORF (bp)
integrase / 1348 / integrase / 660
MDP0000897594 / MYB transcription factor / 3234 / putative MYB transcription factor / 690 / putative MYB transcription factor / 936
MDP0000326311 / mRNA splicing factor / 123 / pre-mRNA-splicing factor SLU7 / 1623 / pre-mRNA-splicing factor SLU7-A-like / 1656
MDP0000524262 / PABP-interacting motif / 395
putative COBL7 / 432 / putative COBL7 / 927
MDP0000136858 / DNA mismatch repair protein / 432 / DNA mismatch repair protein Msh2 / 789 / DNA mismatch repair protein Msh2 / 1215
MDP0000367163 / phosphate transporter / 120 / phosphate transporter, putative / 627 / inorganic phosphate transporter, putative / 627
MDP0000284965 / actin depolymerizing factor / 7218 / actin depolymerizing factor / 441 / actin depolymerizing factor / 399
UPF0420 protein C16orf58 homolog / 1380 / UPF0420 protein C16orf58 homolog / 1434
MDP0000508371 / phosphate transporter / 1616 / phosphate transporter, putative / 1617 / phosphate transporter / 864
putative reverse transcriptase / 1353
MDP0000186457 / maintenance of chromosome 1 / 3957
MDP0000855671 / AP2 transcription factor / 752 / AP2/ERF transcription factor / 759 / AP2/ERF transcription factor / 864
AP2/ERF transcription factor / 759 / AP2/ERF transcription factor / 1527
putative reverse transcriptase / 489
gag-pol polyprotein / 1926 / Putative gag-pol polyprotein / 1130
putative polyprotein / 2205
putative Zinc knuckle containing protein / 2061
MDP0000187369 / AP2 transcription factor / 655 / eth-responsive transcription factor / 438 / ethylene-responsive transcription factor / 453
MDP0000286915 / AP2 transcription factor / 5151 / eth-responsive transcription factor / 720 / ethylene-responsive transcription factor / 498
ribonuclease E / 1650 / ribonuclease E / 1671
RING-H2 finger protein ATL79 / 501
putative COBL7 / 546 / putative COBL7 / 735
hyoscyamine 6-dioxygenase-like / 1020
putative reverse transcriptase / 1275 / putative reverse transcriptase / 2076
putative COBL7 / 537 / putative COBL7 / 1581
MDP0000187760 / protein autophagy 9 / 1496 / autophagy-related protein 9-like / 2562 / autophagy-related protein 9-like / 2460
MDP0000927091 / homology to kinesin light chain / 4840 / kinesin light chain, putative / 1515 / kinesin light chain, putative / 864
MDP0000287209 / ring finger protein / 3363 / RING-H2 finger protein ATL1-like / 723 / ring finger protein, putative / 1905
putative reverse transcriptase / 2029 / putative reverse transcriptase / 1086
auxin-induced protein 5NG4 / 1050 / auxin-induced protein 5NG4 / 639
MDP0000934866 / gal-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase / 2457 / gal-1-phosphate uridyltransferase / 995
formate-tetrahydrofolate ligase / 780 / formate-tetrahydrofolate ligase, putative / 1443
MDP0000139773 / NAM transcription factor / 1044
MDP0000934869 / basic helix-loop-helix protein / 535 / basic helix-loop-helix protein / 2211 / basic helix-loop-helix-containing protein / 2160
gal-1-phosphate uridyl transferase / 768

Molecular Breeding

Paolo Baldia, Pieter Jacobus Woltersa, Matteo Komjanca, Roberto Violaa, Riccardo Velascoa and Silvio Salviab

Genetic and physical characterization of the locus controlling columnar habit in apple (Malus x domestica Borkh.)

a IASMA Research and Innovation Center, Fondazione Edmund Mach, via E. Mach 1 - 38010 - San Michele all'Adige, Italy

b Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bologna, viale Fanin 44 - 40127 - Bologna, Italy

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Paolo Baldi,

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