The last decade has been characterized by a decrease in peach (Prunus persica) fruit
consumption in many countries, foremost due to unsatisfactory quality. The sugar content is …

The plant family Rosaceae consists of over 100 genera and 3,000 species that include many
important fruit, nut, ornamental, and wood crops. Members of this family provide high-value …

The organoleptic qualities of watermelon fruit are defined by the sugar and organic acid
contents, which undergo considerable variations during development and maturation. The …

Although maturity date (MD) is an essential factor affecting fresh fruit marketing and has a
pleiotropic effect on fruit taste qualities, the underlying mechanisms remain largely unclear …

The development of saturated linkage maps using transferable markers, restriction fragment
length polymorphisms, and micro-satellites has provided a foundation for fruit tree genetics …

Background Human selection has a long history of transforming crop genomes. Peach
(Prunus persica) has undergone more than 5000 years of domestication that led to …

Soluble sugar and malic acid contents in mature fruits of 364 apple accessions were
quantified using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Fructose and sucrose …

Although a large number of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers covering the
entire genome are needed to enable molecular breeding efforts such as genome wide …

Background Recently, many studies utilizing next generation sequencing have investigated
plant evolution and domestication in annual crops. Peach, Prunus persica, is a typical …

In plants, fruit ripening is a coordinated developmental process that requires the change in
expression of hundreds to thousands of genes to modify many biochemical and …