The parentage of Muscat of Hamburg

This research demonstrates that Muscat of Hamburg, a fine black table grape variety with muscat flavour, is the progeny of Schiava Grossa x Muscat of Alexandria. Two isozymes (GPI and PGM), 30 nuclear and 5 chloroplastic microsatellite markers were used. Two highly informative microsatellite markers from VMC (‘Vitis Microsatellite Consortium’) are suggested to enlarge the minimum set of loci selected for grapevine identification in the frame of the European Project GenRes 081.