“…Until now, there were no QTL mapping reports related to grape gray mold resistance, and research on gray mold resistance transcriptional regulation mechanism was majorly focused on the transcription factor ERF and MYB families in Arabidopsis and tomato ( Lorenzo et al., 2003 ; Pre et al., 2008 ; Zhao et al., 2012 ; Liu et al., 2021 ). In grapevine, there have been some reports related to gray mold resistance including structure genes VvSWEE4 , VvSWEE15 , VvSWEET7 , and VvAMP2 and some transcription factors including VvWRKY52 , VqERF072 , VqERF112 , VqERF114 , VaERF20 , VaERF16 , and VaMYB306 ( Nanni et al., 2014 ; Jiao et al., 2015 ; Wang et al., 2018a ; Wang et al., 2018b ; Breia et al., 2019 ; Zhu et al., 2019 ; Wang et al., 2020 ; Zhu et al., 2022 ). While the quantitative trait was controlled by many genes, candidate genes related to gray mold resistance in grapevine still need to be explored.…”