Producing protocols for phenotyping, resilience to stresses, vegetative propagation, 'omics' on fruit and leaves, and non-food uses

This Milestone is a crucial step to ensure the reproducible phenotypic characterization of wild corecollections
of Malus, Pyrus and Prunus fruit trees along the WP3 of the FRUITDIV project. The
phenotypic traits targeted are tree phenology, resistance to stress and vigor (T3.2), ability to be
vegetatively propagated (T3.3), as well as ornamental and ecophysiological traits (T3.5). T3.4
specifically targets the prediction of fruit quality traits with omics, for which we produced protocols
for metabolomics and phenomics on leaves and fruits. Since the start of the project, we proceeded to
protocol collection among the partner involved in WP3. Some have been provided via connections
with other ongoing or completed scientific projects, while others have been created ex nihilo and may
need further testing, validation and/or standardization. This Milestone provides the protocols in a
standardized and short format with metadata on the version and a contact person. Our aim is to
update and enrich this database in the 4 following years and to publish the protocols on a dedicated
platform to ensure access and reproducibility of our work.