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Chapter
The Chloroplast Genome of Prunus mume
The chloroplast genome of Prunus mume exhibits a circular DNA molecule of 157,712 bp, with a typical quadripartite structure. It consists of two inverted repeat regions (IRa and IRb) of 26,394 bp, separated by la...
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Chapter
Molecular and Developmental Biology: Pistil Abortion
To understand the role of miRNAs and genes in pistil development, high-throughput sequencing was used to identify pistil-development-related miRNAs and transcripts in Japanese apricot. A combination of two-dim...
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Chapter
Molecular Map** and Gene Cloning of QTLs in Prunus mume
Prunus is an economically important fruit tree genus and includes many stone fruit trees such as peach (Prunus persica Batsch), apricot, Japanese apricot (Prunus mume), sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.), European pl...
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Chapter
Reconstruction of Ancestral Chromosomes of the Family Rosaceae
Genome research in Rosaceae plants is of great significance for improving fruit quality and production through various breeding and genetic engineering programmes. The reconstruction of the ancestral chromosom...
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Chapter
Botanical Description of Prunus mume
Prunus mume is a small deciduous arbour tree species with a weak trunk and a shallow and broad root system. The flower buds of P. mume are covered with scales, and usually, one bud has only one flower. Branching ...
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Article
Transcriptomes of Fruit Cavity Revealed by De Novo Sequence Analysis in Nai Plum (Prunus salicina)
Nai plum (Prunus salicina) is an important fruit crop in China having good taste and flavour. Cavity formation occurring during fruit development affects fruit quality. However, the molecular mechanism underlying...
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Article
Open AccessHigh-density genetic map construction and quantitative trait loci analysis of the stony hard phenotype in peach based on restriction-site associated DNA sequencing
Peach (Prunus persica) is an important fruit crop that generally softens rapidly after harvest resulting in a short shelf-life. By contrast, stony hard (SH) peach fruit does not soften and hardly produces ethylen...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Functional Analysis of Autism Candidate Genes Based on Comparative Genomics Analysis
In the post-genomics era, the rapid development of high-throughput technology makes data analysis become more and more important which could obtain some new biomedical knowledge, especially in understanding di...
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Article
Pistil abortion in Japanese apricot (Prunus mume Sieb. et Zucc.): isolation and functional analysis of PmCCoAOMT gene
The abnormal pistils widely occur in Japanese apricot (Prunus mume Sieb. et Zucc) and seriously affect the fruit production. In this study, a CCoAOMT homologue, PmCCoAOMT, was cloned in Japanese apricot and the b...
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Article
Thin film silicon solar module encapsulation technology research
The encapsulation failure is a serious problem which leads to power degradation and life time reduction of silicon based thin film solar module. Therefore, the encapsulation material and related technology res...
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Article
Genome-wide identification of the auxin response factor (ARF) gene family and expression analysis of its role associated with pistil development in Japanese apricot (Prunus mume Sieb. et Zucc)
Auxin has been widely implicated in various aspects of plant growth and development, including flower development. In order to further elucidate the role of auxin during flower development, especially on the p...
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Article
Genome-wide expression profiles of seasonal bud dormancy at four critical stages in Japanese apricot
Dormancy is one of the most important adaptive mechanisms developed by perennial plants. To reveal the comprehensive mechanism of seasonal bud dormancy at four critical stages in Japanese apricot (Prunus persica)...
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Article
Sequence Analysis of New S-RNase and SFB alleles in Japanese Apricot (Prunus mume)
As with other self-incompatible Prunus species, cultivars of Japanese apricot (Prunus mume Sieb. et Zucc.) display the S-RNase-based gametophytic self-incompatibility system. In this study, S-genotypes of ten Jap...
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Article
A newly identified TSHβ splice variant is involved in the pathology of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
Thyrotropin (TSH) is a protein that plays a key role in the control of thyroid function. TSH consists of a common α-subunit and a unique β-subunit; the latter is responsible for hormone specificity. A novel splic...
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Article
Identification and validation of potential conserved microRNAs and their targets in peach (Prunus persica)
MicroRNAs are a class of small, endogenous, non-coding RNA molecules that negatively regulate gene expression at the transcriptional or the post-transcriptional level. Although a large number of miRNAs have be...
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Article
Open AccessHigh-throughput sequencing of small RNAs and analysis of differentially expressed microRNAs associated with pistil development in Japanese apricot
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of endogenous, small, non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression by mediating gene silencing at transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels in high plants. However, the di...
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Article
A Modified Protocol for RNA Extraction from Different Peach Tissues Suitable for Gene Isolation and Real-Time PCR Analysis
RNA extraction is the first step in the study of gene isolation and expression. However, it is difficult to extract high quantity and quality RNA from tissues containing large quantities of polysaccharides and...
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Article
Does Puffery Deceive? An Empirical Investigation
This paper reports four experiments that investigated whether puffery in advertising deceives or not. The first study tested the effects of six levels of puffery on consumer perceptions of ad truthfulness and ...
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Article
Open AccessAnalysis of expressed sequence tags from Prunus mume flower and fruit and development of simple sequence repeat markers
Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) has been a cost-effective tool in molecular biology and represents an abundant valuable resource for genome annotation, gene expression, and comparative genomics in plants.
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Article
Open AccessSelection of reliable reference genes for gene expression studies in peach using real-time PCR
RT-qPCR is a preferred method for rapid and reliable quantification of gene expression studies. Appropriate application of RT-qPCR in such studies requires the use of reference gene(s) as an internal control t...
