


Sequence analyses of the VvMYBA2gene confirmed that all of the 55 whitened cultivars examined contained the whitened fruit allele, but not really red fruit alleles - and all displayed exactly the same double mutation, directed to a single, common ancestor. Lab tests showed that either mutation removes the capability of the regulator to change on anthocyanin biosynthesis, and when both are usually switched off it results in a white cultivar. The white fruit allele of VvMYBA2was inactivated by two mutations, one top to an amino acidity substitution and the other to a frameshift mutation. Although either can dictate colour, the VvMYBA1gene, which triggers the anthocyanin biosynthesis required to generate red vineyard, was demonstrated not to become transcribed in white grape fruits.

Many grapevine cultivars can end up being separated into two groups - crimson and whitened - structured on the presence or lack of anthocyanin in the epidermis of the fruits, which the geneticists discovered to end up being controlled by these two genes.
