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Science 3 September 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5433, pp. 1562 - 1565
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5433.1562
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Historical Genetics: The Parentage of Chardonnay, Gamay, and Other Wine Grapes of Northeastern France

John Bowers, 1* Jean-Michel Boursiquot, 2 Patrice This, 3 Kieu Chu, 1 Henrik Johansson, 1 Carole Meredith 1dagger

The origins of the classic European wine grapes (Vitis vinifera) have been the subject of much speculation. In a search for parental relationships, microsatellite loci were analyzed in more than 300 grape cultivars. Sixteen wine grapes that have long been grown in northeastern France, including `Chardonnay', `Gamay noir', `Aligoté', and `Melon', have microsatellite genotypes consistent with their being the progeny of a single pair of parents, `Pinot' and `Gouais blanc', both of which were widespread in this region in the Middle Ages. Parentage analysis at 32 microsatellite loci provides statistical support for these relationships.

1 Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
2 Unité de Formation et de Recherche de Viticulture, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique, 34060 Montpellier, France.
3 Unité de Recherches de Génétique et d'Amélioration des Plantes-Viticulture, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, 34060 Montpellier, France.
*   Present address: Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.

dagger    To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: cpmeredith{at}ucdavis.edu

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