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... Citrus is an economically important fruit crop growing worldwide, with enormous health benefits. However, conventional citrus breeding has been hindered by a variety of genetic factors, thereby becoming obsolete and insufficient. Citrus research mostly focused on botanical, taxonomic, and cytogenetics issues. Nowadays the knowledge base has strengthened with the plausible outcomes of commercially ...
... We evaluated differential expression of genes in leaf and xylem tissues for three Eucalyptus clones in the field using Illumina sequencing, under four contrasting fertilization regimes: a control combining nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) and three regimes with N, K, and P deficiency. The field results showed significantly better performance with a control fertilizing regime for hei ...
DNA barcoding; Syzygium; algorithms; biodiversity; genome; monophyly; plant genetics; rain forests; Indonesia
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... Given the difficulties for rapid biodiversity assessments in understudied regions, DNA barcoding appears as a suitable alternative. Still, this approach relies heavily on accurate reference sequence databases for correct taxonomic assignments. In this study, we evaluated the effectiveness of matK, rbcL, and ITS regions for the identification of Myrtaceae species with emphasis on the megadiverse ge ...
Macadamia integrifolia; Macadamia tetraphylla; economic valuation; gene pool; genetic variation; genome; genomics; geographical distribution; germplasm; hybrids; industry; microsatellite repeats; phylogeny; plant genetics; population structure; seeds; Australia; California; Israel; South Africa
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... Macadamia nuts are known globally for their high quality and economic value. Global macadamia commercial nut production amounts to 60,000 metric tonnes and is increasing steadily. South Africa is the leading producer with 29% of worldwide kernel production. Commercial macadamia germplasm was originally selected from a small genepool (mainly Macadamia integrifolia species) from a limited geographic ...
... In forest tree breeding programs, open-pollinated families are frequently used to estimate genetic parameters and evaluate genetic merit of individuals. However, the presence of selfing events not documented in the pedigree affects the estimation of these parameters. In this study, 194 open-pollinated families of Eucalyptus globulus Labill. trees were used to compare the precision of estimated gen ...
Citrus; biochemical pathways; biosynthesis; chromosome mapping; flavanone 3-dioxygenase; genetic distance; genotyping; health promotion; major genes; methyltransferases; plant genetics; polymethoxyflavones; quantitative trait loci; single nucleotide polymorphism
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... Polymethoxyflavones (PMFs) are bioactive flavonoids exclusively found in the genus citrus, and they show various health-promoting activities. Researchers have studied the biosynthesis of PMFs and focused on isolation and characterization of the responsible genes. However, our knowledge about the biosynthesis of PMFs is still limited. In this study, we aimed to reveal the loci for causative factors ...
Jeremy Todd Brawner; Sri Sunarti; Arif Nirsatmanto; Heru Indrayadi; Marthin Tarigan; Muhammad Yuliarto; Sri Rahayu; Eko Bhakti Hardiyanto; Morag Glen; Caroline Mohammed; Anto Rimbawanto
... Three screening trials of clonally replicated Acacia mangium seedlings were evaluated for survival and lesion length following inoculation with locally collected strains of Ceratocystis in Indonesia. Tolerance in the population was low with 6.7% of the 1033 clones represented by more than 4 ramets surviving repeated inoculations. Differences in tolerance among populations were slight; however, pop ...
... Gene dispersal processes shape demographic and microevolutionary dynamics of tree species. Gene dispersal patterns can be studied by spatially explicit methods. Spatial genetic structure (SGS), summarized in the Sp statistic, provides indirect estimates of gene dispersal across generations for a known or assumed population effective density. Sp is modulated by exogenous and endogenous factors incl ...
... Hedgerows are an important component of agricultural landscapes, but in recent years have increasingly faced threats such as habitat loss, land use change, climate change, invasive species, pests and plant pathogens. Given the potential importance of genetic diversity in countering these threats, and the spatial distribution of such diversity within and across natural populations, we analyzed leve ...
... Optimal oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) crop yields rely on the purity of the tenera fruit form. The high yielding hybrid tenera fruit form is the consequence of heterozygosity for one of nine genetic variants within the SHELL gene. High-throughput genotyping allows cost-efficient screening prior to planting to decrease unintentional non-tenera palm cultivation. We present a paradigm for dramatically ...
Malus sylvestris; alleles; apples; effective population size; gene banks; genetic relationships; genotyping; haplotypes; introgression; plant genetics; pollination; seed orchards; single nucleotide polymorphism; single nucleotide polymorphism arrays; Netherlands
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... The Netherlands’ field genebank collection of European wild apple (Malus sylvestris), consisting of 115 accessions, was studied in order to determine whether duplicates and mistakes had been introduced, and to develop a strategy to optimize the planting design of the collection as a seed orchard. We used the apple 20K Infinium single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array, developed in M. domestica, ...
RNA; chloroplast genome; genes; phylogeny; plant genetics; species identification
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... The genus Rosa comprises more than 150 species spread across three subgenera, Hesperhodos, Hulthemia, and Rosa, most of which have high economic and ecological values. Here, we report 31 complete plastomes that belong to the genus Rosa, with the aim of better understanding the evolution and divergence of genes of the plastome in this genus. A comparative analysis was conducted to characterize the ...
chloroplast genome; chloroplasts; fruit morphology; genes; genomics; leaves; monophyly; plant genetics; Asia
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... Acer L. (Sapindaceae) consists of approximately 200 species, with great ornamental and commercial values. However, due to a substantial divergence in inflorescence, leaf shape, and fruit shape during the process of long-term natural evolution, it is remarkably difficult to distinguish them by morphological features. Eight species with compound-leaved maples from Sect. Trifoliata, Pentaphylla, and ...
Paolo Boccacci; Maria Aramini; Matthew Ordidge; Theo J. L. van Hintum; Daniela Torello Marinoni; Nadia Valentini; Jean-Paul Sarraquigne; Anita Solar; Mercè Rovira; Loretta Bacchetta; Roberto Botta
Corylus avellana; alleles; genetic variation; germplasm; germplasm conservation; hazelnuts; landraces; microsatellite repeats; plant genetics; population structure; Europe
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... Hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) is one of the most important tree nut crops in Europe. Germplasm accessions are conserved in ex situ repositories, located in countries where hazelnut production occurs. In this work, we used ten simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers as the basis to establish a core collection representative of the hazelnut genetic diversity conserved in different European collections ...
National Center for Biotechnology Information; Rosaceae; apples; data collection; databases; genome; loci; plant genetics; single nucleotide polymorphism arrays
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... Accurate SNP locus identifiers are essential for the correct matching and aggregation of multiple historical datasets. The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) issued unique “submitted SNP identification” numbers (ssIDs) for every published SNP submitted to its database. Discrepant ssID information was discovered for 78 SNPs for the 8K IRSC apple SNP array while attempting to colla ...
carbon; carbon dioxide; genome; germination; greenhouses; open pollination; plant genetics; statistical models; trees
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... Increasing [CO₂] may influence commercial crop and timber yield. While selection of genotypes sensitive to elevated [CO₂] (e[CO₂]) appears possible in agricultural crops, there is limited evidence for genotype-by-CO₂ (G × CO₂) interactions in commercial tree species. We examined [CO₂] responsiveness in 124 open-pollinated Eucalyptus globulus ssp. globulus (E. globulus) families with the aim of ass ...
José Luis Solís Bonilla; Uilson Vanderlei Lopes; Alfredo Zamarripa Colmenero; Biaani Beeu Martínez Valencia; Carlos Hugo Avendaño Arrazate; Karina Peres Gramacho
... Genetic parameters were estimated for frosty pod rot resistance and yield components in cacao using a linear mixed model approach (restricted maximum likelihood and best linear unbiased prediction). Two progeny trials established in the Rosario Izapa Experimental Field of the INIFAP in Chiapas, Mexico, were evaluated for frosty pod rot incidence and yield components, including the number of pods p ...
... Climate change may lead to severe losses in agriculture, including wood production. To understand the effects of climate change on physiology and molecular aspects of wood formation, we grew plants of Eucalyptus grandis and E. globulus for 35 days under three temperatures (10–12 °C, 20–22 °C, and 33–35 °C) combined with two CO₂ concentrations (390 and 700 ppm). Biochemical analyses and RNAseq in s ...
... Population genomics determines the evolutionary potential of a species by decoding the genetic structure and diversity of populations from diverse eco-geographical gradients. Tectona grandis L.f., being a tropical timber tree species distributed in diverse environmental and geographical conditions, is more responsive to local adaptation. This study investigates the extent of genetic variation of t ...
Prunus salicina; alleles; center of origin; cultivars; domestication; gene flow; genetic variation; genomics; heterozygosity; human health; phylogeny; plant genetics; plums; population structure; principal component analysis; China
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... Chinese plum (Prunus salicina L.), also known as Japanese plum, is gaining importance because of its extensive genetic diversity and nutritional attributes that are beneficial for human health. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most abundant form of genomic polymorphisms and are widely used in population genetics research. In this study, we constructed high-quality SNPs through whole- ...