Breeding in peach, cherry and plum: from a tissue culture, genetic, transcriptomic and genomic perspective

This review is an overview of traditional and modern breeding methodologies being used to develop new Prunus cultivars (stone fruits) with major emphasis on peach, sweet cherry and Japanese plum. To this end, common breeding tools used to produce seedlings, including in vitro culture tools, are disc...

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Main Authors: Basilio Carrasco, Lee Meisel, Marlene Gebauer, Rolando Garcia-Gonzales, Herman Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2013-01-01
Series:Biological Research
Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602013000300001&lng=en&tlng=en