Pear is one of the oldest fruit tree crops and the third most important temperate fruit species.
Its domestication took place independently in the Far East (China) and in the Caucasus …

Few records are available about local Tunisian pear cultivars characterized by low chilling
requirements and adaptation to dry conditions. In this work, seven SSRs derived from apple …

Genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationships among 48 pear accessions belonging to six
species were determined using 23 morphological traits and 20 simple sequence repeat …

A total of 100 Pyrus L. accessions native mainly to East Asia were subjected to amplified
fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis to evaluate genetic variability and …

Southern Europe is home to two naturally occurring pear species: the European wild pear
(Pyrus pyraster (L.) Burgsd.) and the almond-leaved pear (P. spinosa Forssk.). In addition to …

In order to provide molecular characteristics of wild pear (P. pyraster) resources, six
populations (192 accessions) from different regions of Poland were investigated with 17 …

The Sardinian pear germplasm is an important resource of genetic diversity that can be used
for increasing data on European pear germplasm, to optimise the efficiency of the …

Pear, like the other pip fruit species apple and quince, belongs to the sub-family Maloideae
in the Rosaceae, sharing a basic chromosome number of x= 17 which indicates a polyploidy …

The present study investigated genetic diversity, structure and hybridization in a collection of
the endangered wild pear species Pyrus pyraster (L.) Burgd. A total of 278 putative 'true …

Pear (Pyrus spp.) is one of the most important edible fruits belonging to the family Rosaceae.
DNA markers, molecular genetics and genomics, and molecular breeding of pear have …