The Almonds and Related Species
Identification, Characteristics and Uses
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Almond species, in addition to their historical importance as food crops, are becoming increasingly utilized in reforestation, ecological restoration, and urban landsca**. Their historical distribution exten...
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Commercial almond cultivars (Prunus dulcis) are self-sterile, expressing gametophytic self-incompatibility and requiring insect pollinators for cross-pollinations. Self-fruitfulness is a major objective of almond...
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Considerable published information on almond species utilization focuses on their potential as valuable sources for genetic improvement through the breeding of cultivars and rootstocks. A number of useful trai...
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Taxonomic classifications utilize morphological, biochemical, and molecular differences. Almond species show a particularly large variation in nut and kernel traits. These often quantitative traits are less af...
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Almonds have hard shells (endocarps), and in some species, mechanical and/or chemical scarification, such as immersion in sulfuric acid, is required to achieve more consistent levels of seed germination. Seed ...
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Almonds and their wild relatives are grouped within the genus Prunus. Over 30 almond species and over 20 interspecies hybrids have been reported worldwide. Several reported species may be the same and are thus sy...
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Originally classified as Amygdalus communis, cultivated almonds, as well as their close relatives, are currently classified in the genus Prunus within the order Rosales, the clade Rosids, the family Rosaceae, and...
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Related species provide adaptation to a wide range of soils and climates, making them historically important as regional rootstocks. Utilization as rootstocks ranges from top-working naturally occurring specie...
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Cultivated peach is of global importance as both fresh market and processing cultivars and as rootstocks. Limited genetic options for breeding resistance to biotic stress is a consequence of a limited initial ...
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Regulation of flowering time in almond, as in other Prunus species, is a complex process involving both chill and heat requirements. Following exposure to appropriate consecutive periods of cold and warm temperat...
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Peach is an economically important fruit tree crop that exhibits high phenotypic variability yet suffers from diversity-limited gene pool. Genetic introgression of novel alleles from related species is being p...
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Self-compatibility in almond (Prunus dulcis) is attributed to the presence of the S f haplotype, allelic to and dominant over the series of S-alleles controlli...
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Phenotypic data for tree and fruit characteristics was collected over three consecutive years from a germplasm collection of 94 peach and nectarine accessions representing both traditional Spanish as well as f...
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Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are a fundamental source of genomic variation. Large SNP panels have been developed for Prunus species. Fruit quality traits are essential peach breeding program objectives ...
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Chilling injury (CI) is a major physiological problem limiting consumption and export of peach and nectarine (Prunus persica (L.) Batsch). To clarify the genetic basis for chilling injury, inheritance of the majo...
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The almond is economically the most important tree nut in the world. Its production is limited to areas characterized by a Mediterranean climate, including regions in the Mediterranean countries, the Central V...
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The ChillPeach database was developed to facilitate identification of genes controlling chilling injury (CI), a global-scale post-harvest physiological disorder in peach. It contained 7,862 high-quality ESTs (...
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