Objectives

The specific objectives of RosBREED are as follows: 

1. Increase the likelihood of new cultivar adoption, enlarge market potential, and increase consumption of rosaceous fruits by using socio-economic approaches to enhance knowledge of stakeholder values and consumer preferences to inform breeding.
    
2. Establish sustainable technical infrastructure for an efficient MAB Pipeline in Rosaceae, including crop-specific SNP genome scan platforms for breeding-relevant germplasm exploiting the shared ancestry of Rosaceae crops.
    
3. Integrate breeding and genomics resources by establishing a user-friendly U.S.-wide standardized statistical framework and breeding information management system.
    
4. Implement MAB in core RosBREED programs with a common focus on fruit quality traits.
    
5. Enhance sustainability of cultivar development by transferring MAB technologies to the public and private community of U.S. Rosaceae breeders through training current and future breeders, while better engaging the production, processing, and marketing sectors, allied scientists, and consumers.