Genetic regulation of volatile production in two melon introgression line collections with contrasting ripening behavior.

"Conflict of interests The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

"This work was supported by grants RTI2018-097665-B-C2, PID2021-125998OB-C21, and CEX2019-000902-S funded by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by “ERDF A way of making Europe” to MP and JGM. The authors also acknowledge the CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya and the 2021-SGR-00756 grant from the Generalitat de Catalunya. The authors also wish to thank the support of the Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca del Departament d’Empresa i Coneixement de la Generalitat de Catalunya for having funded the 2019 FI_B 00124 project, and the co-funding of the European Social Fund (ESF—‘ESF is investing in your future’) from the European Union. Special thanks to Fuensanta García for technical assistance in field and lab operations, as well as to intern students Tamara Pazos Martínez, Júlia Farrero Masferrer, Carlos Muñoz Borrego, Albert Alegret, and Albert Roldán."