American researchers have identified specific genetic markers in the grape genome to improve the fruit quality, and disease and pest resistance, and could quicken the development of better grapes. A team comprising computational biologists and geneticists from the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) report the development of relatively fast and inexpensive way to identify genetic markers not only in grapes, but also in other crops by using modern sequencing approaches. “With the decreasing costs of DNA sequencing and genotyping, we anticipate that there will be