This book reviews the current status of P. mume research, highlighting how the new data coming from the release of the P. mume genomes can advance science and help to solve a number of problems facing the P. mume industry.
Prunus mume, which was domesticated in China more than 3,000 years ago as an ornamental plant and for its fruit, is one of the first genomes among the Prunus subfamilies of the Rosaceae family that has been sequenced.
Combining the P. mume genome with available data, scientists have succeeded in reconstructing nine ancestral chromosomes of the Rosaceae family, as well as the chromosome fusion, fission and duplication history of three major subfamilies. The P. mume genome sequence adds to our understanding of Rosaceae evolution and provides an important basis for the improvement of fruit trees.
This book offers an essential a guide for all those who are interested in gene discovery, comparative genomics, molecular breeding and new breeding techniques; and will be particularly useful for scientists, breeders, university students, and public sector institutes that are involved in the P. mume industry and/or Rosaceae research.
Author(s): Zhihong Gao
Series: Compendium of Plant Genomes
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 169
Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
Production and Academic Importance of Prunus mume (Zhihong Gao)....Pages 1-3
Origin and Evolution of Prunus mume (Zhihong Gao, Wenjie Luo)....Pages 5-7
Botanical Description of Prunus mume (Zhihong Gao, Ting Shi)....Pages 9-24
Taxonomy and Germplasm of Prunus mume (Zhihong Gao, Ting Shi)....Pages 25-30
The Genome of Prunus mume (Qixiang Zhang, Lidan Sun)....Pages 31-52
Molecular Mapping and Gene Cloning of QTLs in Prunus mume (Zhihong Gao, Xiaopeng Ni)....Pages 53-65
Systems Biology in Japanese Apricot (Zhihong Gao, Xiaopeng Ni)....Pages 67-75
Small RNAs in Prunus mume (Zhihong Gao, Ting Shi)....Pages 77-83
The Chloroplast Genome of Prunus mume (Zhihong Gao, Xiaopeng Ni)....Pages 85-91
Prunus mume Transcriptomics (Zhihong Gao, Ting Shi)....Pages 93-99
Functional Genes in Bud Dormancy and Impacts on Plant Breeding (Yuto Kitamura, Wenxing Chen, Hisayo Yamane, Ryutaro Tao)....Pages 101-117
Molecular and Developmental Biology: Self-incompatibility (Hisayo Yamane, Ryutaro Tao)....Pages 119-135
Molecular and Developmental Biology: Pistil Abortion (Zhihong Gao, Ting Shi)....Pages 137-148
Reconstruction of Ancestral Chromosomes of the Family Rosaceae (Zhihong Gao, Shahid Iqbal)....Pages 149-161
