Genetic variation of morpho-physiological traits in an apple core collection

Dataset used for the preparation of the manuscript “Genetic variation of morphological traits and transpiration in an apple core collection under well-watered conditions: towards the identification of morphotypes with high water use efficiency”

The dataset presented includes information for morphological and physiological traits for 183 genotypes of an INRA apple core collection. This collection was grown under well-watered condition in the Phenoarch phenotyping platform in Montpellier (France). Trees were evaluated during the first year of growth after grafting them on M9 rootstock. A first file includes individual information for four plants for each genotype. A second file includes the Best Linear Unbiased Predictors (BLUP’s) of genetic values for each morpho-physiological trait and genotype. Mixed effect models taking into account the spatial heterogeneity within the phenotyping platform were used to estimate BLUPs values.